You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book,
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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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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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At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
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The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
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One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
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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.
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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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The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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Life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.
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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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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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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It’s either Us or Them!
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Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron.
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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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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 new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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