The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe must give Italians a sense of race.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
BENITO MUSSOLINI[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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIItalian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
BENITO MUSSOLINII 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWhat is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
BENITO MUSSOLINIAgainst 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWar is to man what maternity is to a woman
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
BENITO MUSSOLINIReligion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book,
BENITO MUSSOLINISilence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism, 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI