“Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.”

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

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.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.

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.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

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.

The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular?

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

The struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments.

When I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.

There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.