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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIPeace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
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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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Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today….
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The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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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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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.
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People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin…. Today’s youth are moved by other slogans…Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
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The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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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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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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Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
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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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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
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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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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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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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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
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National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
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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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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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War is the normal state of the people.
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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.
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