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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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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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There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
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Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
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State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
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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.
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today….
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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.
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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
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If 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.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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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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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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War is the normal state of the people.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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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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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
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People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin…. Today’s youth are moved by other slogans…Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
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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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Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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