Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
BENITO MUSSOLINIYes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
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If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
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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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Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
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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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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.
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The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
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The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.
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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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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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