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.
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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Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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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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[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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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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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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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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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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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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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.
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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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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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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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 Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
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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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Believe, obey, fight.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It’s either Us or Them!
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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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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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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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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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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.
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