It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThere is no revolution that can change the nature of man
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
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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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The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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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.
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
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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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Life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.
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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
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