Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
BENITO MUSSOLINIBetter to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
BENITO MUSSOLINI[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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIStatesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
BENITO MUSSOLINII’ve had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring
BENITO MUSSOLINIThere is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
BENITO MUSSOLINIBlood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThere is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
BENITO MUSSOLINIDemocratic 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWar is to man what maternity is to a woman
BENITO MUSSOLINIPeople 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWar is the normal state of the people.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThirty 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 MUSSOLINIThere is no revolution that can change the nature of man
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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