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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThere is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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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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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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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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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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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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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
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War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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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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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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