“A 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.”

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

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.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

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.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Believe, obey, fight.

Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

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.

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness.

To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century.

A man doesn’t save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can.

Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers.

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.