Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFor 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.
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State 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.
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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.
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There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
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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.
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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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National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
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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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War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!
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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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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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The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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On 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.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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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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It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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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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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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Fascism is a religious concept.
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