“There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.”

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.

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.

Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

A century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.

Planning other people’s actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.

Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!