The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
BENITO MUSSOLINIDemocracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.
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Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book,
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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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You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State… Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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Believe, obey, fight.
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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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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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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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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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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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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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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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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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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
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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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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
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I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
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Fascism, 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.
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Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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