The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
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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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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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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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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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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It’s either Us or Them!
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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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I’ve had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
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Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
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The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.
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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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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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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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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 press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron.
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The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!
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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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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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