Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
BENITO MUSSOLINIDemocracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
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Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
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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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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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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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One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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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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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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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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Life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.
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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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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
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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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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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