Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
BENITO MUSSOLINILet us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
BENITO MUSSOLINIBelieve, obey, fight.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIf two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
BENITO MUSSOLINIBlood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIf 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThere 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 MUSSOLINIThere 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWhat the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
BENITO MUSSOLINILife which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
BENITO MUSSOLINIYou know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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