“Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.”
“I only trust my fists.”
“We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.”
“Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak-minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.”
“Better to break your back than to break your soul.”
“If you believe in democracy, you cannot be a Fascist. If you are a Fascist, you cannot believe in democracy.”
“To young people, I say: “Believe, fight, and create!”
“Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.”
“Our minds are like parachutes: they only function when open.”
“The Italian people are tired of elections and prefer bread, work, and discipline.”
“Liberty is a duty, not a right.”
Benito Mussolini Quotes
“Fascism is not a doctrine but a faith.”
“It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.”
“The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.”
“Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.”
“The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.”
“We are not politicians. We are revolutionaries.”
“The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.”
“The growth of the state is not only a necessity but a benefit.”
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“Everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
“The crowd doesn’t have to know, only to believe.”
“Inactivity is death.”
“Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hand, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.”
“Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice, it is a fallacy.”
“The masses should not have any decision-making power.”
“I am not a dictator. I have only simplified democracy.”
“The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.”
“To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants.”
“Fascism is not a subject for debate, but an action.”
“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
“It is necessary to have the courage to break with the past and create a new future.”
“The League of Nations is very much like a chain that ties down the strongest and loosens the weakest.”
“Socialism is a fraud.”
“The man who thinks with his head is a man to be feared; the man who thinks with his heart is a man to be loved.”
“For my part, I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes.”
“The nation is a work of art, and it is the artist’s duty to shape and guide it.”
“We affirm that the name Italy must be our first word in political and social life.”
“The state is an absolute, and it is not subject to the opinions of the individual.”
“We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.”
“The Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State.”
“The state is absolute, individuals and groups relative.”
“The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing comes without a struggle.”
“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”
“War is to man what maternity is to a woman.”
“The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It’s either us or them!”
“It is not impossible to govern Italians, but it is useless.”
“The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.”
“There is no revolution that doesn’t burn to avenge a fallen comrade.”
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people.”
“A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!”
“We are not a people who live in the past. We are a people who shape the future.”
“We affirm that the Italian name must be our first word in political and social life.”
“We don’t believe in the dogma of the autonomy of art. We don’t believe in the autonomy of art.”
“Victory is the only thing that counts.”
“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.”
“I have been a racist since 1921.”
“Fascism recognizes the real needs which gave rise to socialism.”
“The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.”
“Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy.”
“Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.”
“The strength of a nation is not in its numbers but in its will.”
“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies.”
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
“The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.”
“You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
“The nation is not an ideal thing but a concrete entity.”
“Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want.”