Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
BENITO MUSSOLINISocialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
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Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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The Government has been compelled to levy taxes which unavoidably hit large sections of the population.
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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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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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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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War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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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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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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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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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
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