Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
BENITO MUSSOLINIOne moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
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The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
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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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War is the normal state of the people.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
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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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