Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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.
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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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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 Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.
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Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.
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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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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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The fascist state is the corporate state.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
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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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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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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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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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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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If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.
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I’ve had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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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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[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
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If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!
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Believe, obey, fight.
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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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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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