Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
BENITO MUSSOLINIThe End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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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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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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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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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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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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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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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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Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
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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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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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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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Fascism is a religious concept.
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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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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The fascist state is the corporate state.
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There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
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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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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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As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
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The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. … They were elements of disorder and subversion.
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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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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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