Benito Mussolini Quotes
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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.
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Religion is a species of mental disease. It has always had a pathological reaction on mankind.
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I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
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The socialist revolution was a pure and simple question of ‘force.’… Between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat no accord is possible. One must disappear. The weaker will be ‘eliminated.’ The class struggle is therefore a question of ‘force.’
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I shall defend this pact with all my strength, and if Fascism does not follow me in collaboration with the Socialists, at least no one can force me to follow Fascism.
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Some still ask of us: what do you want? We answer with three words that summon up our entire program. Here they are…Italy, Republic, Socialization. . .Socialization is no other than the implantation of Italian Socialism…
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Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
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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.
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I bequeath the republic to the republicans and not to the monarchists, and the work of social reform to the socialist and not to the middle class.
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Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
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Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.
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I know the Communists. I know them because some of them are my children…
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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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.
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The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for … we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty … the Italian people are a race of sheep.
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It is no longer economy aiming at individual profit, but economy concerned with collective interest.
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In the whole negative part, we are alike. We and the Russians are against liberals, against democrats, against parliament.
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You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me.
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Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
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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.
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Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution.
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Fascism was not the protector of any one class, but a supreme regulator of the relations between all citizens of a state.
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National pride has no need of the delirium of race. Anti-Semitism does not exist in Italy… Whenever things go awry in Germany, the Jews are blamed for it.