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 MUSSOLINIState ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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War is the normal state of the people.
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!
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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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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 beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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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.
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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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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