“Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep”

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.

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.

Liberty is a duty, not a right.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

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.

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

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.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

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.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

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.

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.

Dissolving the dross which had ‘encrusted’ Christianity ‘in the days of ignorance and superstition’.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He’s amazing really.

I want to be consistent from the first day of the season to the last.

Never do but one thing at a time, and never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night.

Do not underestimate the power of an enemy, no matter how great or small, to rise against you another day.

No matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.

In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain.