“What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.”

Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.

The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.

The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.

War is the normal state of the people.

I’ve had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.

We must give Italians a sense of race.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

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.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

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!

War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.

We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren’t rich – but we felt secure.

When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I’m not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in “The Word” and filled the atmosphere with worship.

It’s a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

You don’t have to bathe every day to look clean. It’s just an illusion.