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 MUSSOLINIOur program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Fascism is a religious concept.
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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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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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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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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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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The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
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Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
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Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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