Benito Mussolini Quotes - Page 3

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

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.

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring

Liberty is a duty, not a right.

Fascism is a religious concept.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

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

The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

War is the normal state of the people.

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.

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.

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.

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

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