Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt 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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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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The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
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There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
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The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.
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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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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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War is the normal state of the people.
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On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.
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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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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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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It’s either Us or Them!
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The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. … They were elements of disorder and subversion.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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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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We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.
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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.
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Fascism, 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.
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A century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.
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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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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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