It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
BENITO MUSSOLINISpeeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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.
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Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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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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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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Fascism, 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.
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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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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 history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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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
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
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If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!
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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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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.
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
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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.
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It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.
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