“Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.”

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 the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

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.

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,

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.

As victims of hurt, we frequently don’t bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It’s not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.

When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, “You know, I gotta do this.”