There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
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.
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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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Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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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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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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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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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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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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Fascism is a religious concept.
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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a 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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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
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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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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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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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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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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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I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.
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The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
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We must give Italians a sense of race.
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It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
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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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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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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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