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 MUSSOLINIPeople are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin…. Today’s youth are moved by other slogans…Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
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The fascist state is the corporate state.
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Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State… Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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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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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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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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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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Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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