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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIf 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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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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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Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
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Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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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.
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Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
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