You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism 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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them.
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The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman
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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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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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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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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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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 is a religious concept.
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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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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
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Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy’s war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
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As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
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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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On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.
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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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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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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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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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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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I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
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The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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