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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
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Fascism is a religious concept.
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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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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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.
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You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.
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The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. … They were elements of disorder and subversion.
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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.
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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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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.
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