Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.
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The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
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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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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
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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 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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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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A century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.
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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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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 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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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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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.
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It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
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The fascist state is the corporate state.
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