Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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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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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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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
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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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Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
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The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
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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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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.
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Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State… Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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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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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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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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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 is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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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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