It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
BENITO MUSSOLINIIt’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State… Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
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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 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 state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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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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One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
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Fascism 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.
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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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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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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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The 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.
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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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Life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.
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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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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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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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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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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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