There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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
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Fascism is a religious concept.
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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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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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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.
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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
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State 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.
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The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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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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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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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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War is the normal state of the people.
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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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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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The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.
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Life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.
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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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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.
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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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Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book,
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