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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIDemocratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
-
-
What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
We must give Italians a sense of race.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
BENITO MUSSOLINI






