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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIBetter to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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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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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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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 struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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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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The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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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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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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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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