For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.
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There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
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Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
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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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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 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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People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin…. Today’s youth are moved by other slogans…Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
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Fascism is a religious concept.
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The 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.
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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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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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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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The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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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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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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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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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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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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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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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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You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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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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Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.
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