Famous Quotes by Benito Mussolini

“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims.

Fascism is not a matter of sentiment; it can be defined as a philosophy of life.

We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

The masses should be directed without letting them know it.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

Better to break the law than to break the poor.

The liberal state is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Inactivity is death.

To make a people great, it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants.

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

Fascism is a house with many rooms.

It is not impossible to govern Italians, merely useless.

War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to meet it.

There is no revolution that can be won without violence.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.