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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
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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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Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today….
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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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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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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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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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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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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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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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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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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Fascism is a religious concept.
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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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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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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.
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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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People 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 Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
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Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
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The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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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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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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