What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWhat the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
BENITO MUSSOLINIFascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThere is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
BENITO MUSSOLINIAll within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIf you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
BENITO MUSSOLINIFor 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThere 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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe 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 MUSSOLINIFascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book,
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
BENITO MUSSOLINILiberty is a duty, not a right.
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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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