Mussolini quotes
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, for it is the merger of state and corporate power.
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims.
I don’t care what these parasites think. What I care is that they don’t think.
The truth will prevail, despite efforts to suppress it. Lies may be momentarily triumphant, but in the end, they always fall.
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s.
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
We are not pacifists. War has been the trainer of peoples and the mother of all things.
The best blood will be shed, men will be called to violence, because violence is in society’s nature.
Believe, obey, fight.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Mussolini quotes part 2
The State is not only the present State, but also the State as an uninterrupted process, developing through the centuries.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
I would rather be a swineherd under a sultan than the king of kings of pigs.
Dictators may grow on trees, but democrats must be made.
Fascism is not an ideology, it is a way of life.
The destiny of Italy is in the hands of men who do not believe in anything, who have no ideals, and who trust neither in themselves, nor others.
The only outcome of a non-fascist government is the enslavement of the people.
Democracy is a king’s highway to dictatorship.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice, it is a fallacy and a trap.
Fascism is a philosophy of action, not words.
Better to live a day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.
I am the only free man among the living, who has ever dared to fight and die for the invincible leadership of the proletariat.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
For my part, I believe that mankind will perish by fire, sooner or later, unless it extends its vices to a selective few.
There are only two classes in society, the exploited and the exploiters.
We must be warriors, but never without the spirit of obedience and discipline.
The State is not only the present State, but also the State as an uninterrupted process, developing through the centuries.
We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.
It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a goat.
Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology and repudiates it.
It is precisely because the march of civilization has frustrated our hopes at every turn that fascism must take a hand.
The state lays claim to moral, spiritual, and physical direction.
The Fascist State, as a higher and more powerful expression of personality, is a force, but a spiritual one.
The League of Nations is the arbitral organ of the oppressors against the oppressed.
Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State; and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State.
Fascism is a religious concept.
We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.
Providence has given me the strength to complete an uncompromising struggle against every evil inflicted on the people and against any exploitation by plutocratic and cosmopolitan circles.
I don’t care what these parasites think. What I care is that they don’t think.
The truth will prevail, despite efforts to suppress it. Lies may be momentarily triumphant, but in the end, they always fall.
The best blood will be shed, men will be called to violence, because violence is in society’s nature.
Dictators may grow on trees, but democrats must be made.
Fascism is not an ideology, it is a way of life.
The State is not only the present State, but also the State as an uninterrupted process, developing through the centuries.
We must be warriors, but never without the spirit of obedience and discipline.