The Italian people are disciplined, silent and calm, they work and know that there is a Government which governs, and know, above all, that if this Government hits cruelly certain sections of the Italian people, it does not so out of caprice, but from the supreme necessity of national order.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThere 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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
-
-
The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
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.
BENITO MUSSOLINI