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 MUSSOLINIOur 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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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.
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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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Believe, obey, fight.
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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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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There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
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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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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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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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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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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.
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
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Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.
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