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 MUSSOLINIEvery anarchist is a baffled dictator.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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The 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.
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The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It’s either Us or Them!
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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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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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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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The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
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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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It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter’s prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes’ excellent little book,
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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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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
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At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
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Believe, obey, fight.
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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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One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
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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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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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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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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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You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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