I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
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 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 State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
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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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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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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.
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Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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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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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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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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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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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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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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I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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