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.
BENITO MUSSOLINIWe become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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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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You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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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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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty…
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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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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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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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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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
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The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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