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.
BENITO MUSSOLINILet us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
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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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The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.
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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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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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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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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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One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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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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For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
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Life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.
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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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