It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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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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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[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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State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
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The fascist state is the corporate state.
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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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I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
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Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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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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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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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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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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Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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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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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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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
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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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One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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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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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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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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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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