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 MUSSOLINIThe Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron.
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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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The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.
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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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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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Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
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Believe, obey, fight.
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State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
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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!
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There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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