Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
BENITO MUSSOLINIBetter to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
BENITO MUSSOLINIYes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
BENITO MUSSOLINIState 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINILiberty 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIBelieve, obey, fight.
BENITO MUSSOLINILet us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
BENITO MUSSOLINISpeeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
BENITO MUSSOLINIDemocracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
BENITO MUSSOLINII 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
BENITO MUSSOLINIAll within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
BENITO MUSSOLINIA 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI