Benito Mussolini Quotes - Page 5

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

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

I am not a collector of deserts!

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Family - see Fascist State.

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.

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.

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable.

Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

If the 19th [century] 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.

Fascism, in so far as 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. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism - born of a renunciation of struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it.

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

Italy, wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

The working people are bound to their native shores.

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.

Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.

Fascism is not an article for export.