“It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?”

Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

This 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.

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

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.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Fascism is a religious concept.

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.

National pride has no need of the delirium of race.

Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

There is no love affair held in these hands. I am reminded of this time and again.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

I wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.