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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIBelieve, obey, fight.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. … They were elements of disorder and subversion.
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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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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 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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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.
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It 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.
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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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It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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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 masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.
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The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
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Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
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Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.
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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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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.
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