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.
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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.
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As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
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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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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
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Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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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.
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The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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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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National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
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The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.
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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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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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