“Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.”

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

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book,

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.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Against 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.

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

I 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.

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.

Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.

Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.

Liberty is a duty, not a right.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

It seems there always something coming up for me during Masters week, but that’s not an excuse to play good or bad golf.

Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric’s vocals.

In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.

We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.