There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
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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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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
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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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This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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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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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 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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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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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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State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
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What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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I’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
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People 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.
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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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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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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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The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
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Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.
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The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today….
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