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 MUSSOLINIThere 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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.
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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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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It’s either Us or Them!
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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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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Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
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Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
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Believe, obey, fight.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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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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I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
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The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
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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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