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.
BENITO MUSSOLINILenin 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.
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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Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State… Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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Fascism is a religious concept.
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War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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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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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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Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
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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.
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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 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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The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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