I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It’s either Us or Them!
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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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Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
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Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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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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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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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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The fascist state is the corporate state.
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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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 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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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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The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!
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Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
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The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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On 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.
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
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There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
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Fascism is a religious concept.
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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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