Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a 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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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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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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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 is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
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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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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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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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Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.
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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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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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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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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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Fascism is a religious concept.
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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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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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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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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