Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
BENITO MUSSOLINIEvery anarchist is a baffled dictator.
BENITO MUSSOLINIStatesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
BENITO MUSSOLINILiberty 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
BENITO MUSSOLINIState 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe truth is that men are tired of liberty.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
BENITO MUSSOLINIBetter to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
BENITO MUSSOLINIWar is the normal state of the people.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
BENITO MUSSOLINIState 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIAll within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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