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.
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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I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
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Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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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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There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
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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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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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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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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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Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
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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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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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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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