Top 129 Quotes & Sayings by Benito Mussolini
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Fascism is a religious concept.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
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.
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
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.
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.
Fascism is not an article for export.
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Inactivity is death.
I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
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.
Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, 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.
The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. 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.
The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
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.
The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
The fascist state is the corporate state.
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.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
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.
If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.
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.
State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!
I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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.
Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine!
The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.
If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.
Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.
There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
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