Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
BENITO MUSSOLINII 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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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Believe, obey, fight.
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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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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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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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The fascist state is the corporate state.
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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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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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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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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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The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.
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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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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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Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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