We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
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As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
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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 State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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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 a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
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Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book,
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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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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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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For 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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Fascism is a religious concept.
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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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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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Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State… Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.
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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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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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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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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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If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!
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