The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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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The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
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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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You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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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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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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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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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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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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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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For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.
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There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
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People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin…. Today’s youth are moved by other slogans…Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
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