We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
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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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State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
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There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
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There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
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The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
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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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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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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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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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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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I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
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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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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
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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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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
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