“We must give Italians a sense of race.”

We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.

The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

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.

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

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.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

I do feel it’s hard to be modest and humble and egoless when people are telling you you are so great and wanting to give you prizes and energy. I’m trying hard not to be an awful, narcissistic human being.

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don’t, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.