Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
BENITO MUSSOLINISpeeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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Fascism is a religious concept.
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Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.
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Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
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The fascist state is the corporate state.
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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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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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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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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.
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Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
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National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
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The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
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