Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today….
BENITO MUSSOLINIRace? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today….
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. … They were elements of disorder and subversion.
BENITO MUSSOLINIState ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
BENITO MUSSOLINIAt every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
BENITO MUSSOLINIEvery anarchist is a baffled dictator.
BENITO MUSSOLINIOn the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThirty 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThis is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
BENITO MUSSOLINIDemocracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.
BENITO MUSSOLINIA century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThere is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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