It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
BENITO MUSSOLINILiberty is a duty, not a right.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
-
-
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
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 MUSSOLINI -
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
If 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
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 MUSSOLINI -
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 MUSSOLINI -
I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
BENITO MUSSOLINI