Quotes by Benito Mussolini
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We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.
Source: In 1921. As reported in: "Modern dictatorship" (J. Cape, 1939) by Diana Spearman, p. 167 -
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
Source: to Edwin L James of the New York Times -
Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.
Source: The Doctrine of Fascism -
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
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Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
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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.
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Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
Source: As quoted in Garlic and Oil : Food and Politics in Italy -
I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.
Source: As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption -
I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
Source: Quoted in The New Inquistions by Arthur Versluis -
If the 19th was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the collective century, and therefore the century of the state.
Source: The Doctrine of Fascism -
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.
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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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Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
Source: Popolo dItalia (14 July 1920) The Artificer and the Material, quoted in Mussolini in the Making (1938) by Gaudens Megaro, p. 326
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