If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFor my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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 End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.
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Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
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As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
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A century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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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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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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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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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.
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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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[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
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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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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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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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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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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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I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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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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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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