There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
BENITO MUSSOLINIThis is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!
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It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
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Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
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I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
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War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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Life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It’s either Us or Them!
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
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The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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A century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.
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The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
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