It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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A 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.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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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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National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
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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.
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The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.
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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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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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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.
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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.
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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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