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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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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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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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Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
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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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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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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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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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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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Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
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Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
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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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