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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIYes, 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIf you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
BENITO MUSSOLINII have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThree cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThere is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
BENITO MUSSOLINIDemocracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWhat the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
BENITO MUSSOLINISilence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIRace? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today….
BENITO MUSSOLINIAt every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
BENITO MUSSOLINIOne moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWar is to man what maternity is to a woman
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