I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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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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Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
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I’ve had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
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The fascist state is the corporate state.
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Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State… Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin…. Today’s youth are moved by other slogans…Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
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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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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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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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War is the normal state of the people.
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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book,
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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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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
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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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Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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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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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.
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As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
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For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
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