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 MUSSOLINII’ve had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
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I’ve had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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War is the normal state of the people.
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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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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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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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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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There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.
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Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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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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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
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Believe, obey, fight.
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We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.
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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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One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
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Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
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You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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Fascism is a religious concept.
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For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.
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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
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