Democratic 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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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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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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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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Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
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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.
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Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron.
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