Benito Mussolini Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!

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.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

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.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

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.

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

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

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.