Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism, 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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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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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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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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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State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
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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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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.
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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There 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.
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The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
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[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
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