The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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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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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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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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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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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One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest.
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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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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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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
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Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose… mine!
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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 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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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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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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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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On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
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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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Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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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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Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
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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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