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.
BENITO MUSSOLINILiberty 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.
More Benito Mussolini Quotes
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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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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It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
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War is the normal state of the people.
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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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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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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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value.
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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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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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[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.
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