Famous Quotes by Benito Mussolini

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

Benito Mussolini

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

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

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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

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

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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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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The masses should be directed without letting them know it.

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The fascist state is the corporate state.

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Better to break the law than to break the poor.

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

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Inactivity is death.

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

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

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Fascism is a house with many rooms.

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It is not impossible to govern Italians, merely useless.

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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.

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There is no revolution that can be won without violence.

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Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

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

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

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Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Benito Mussolini