Benito Mussolini
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.Collection: Alone
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.Collection: History
It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.Collection: Good
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.Collection: History
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.Collection: Truth
Inactivity is death.Collection: Death
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.Collection: Peace
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.Collection: Best
Fascism, the more 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.Collection: Future
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.Collection: History
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
Fascism is a religious concept.
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
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.
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
Fascism is not an article for export.
We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.Collection: Arguing
Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.Collection: Beautiful
If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!Collection: Sheep
The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.Collection: Country
I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.Collection: Thinking
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.Collection: Ignorance
The fascist state is the corporate state.Collection: States
The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.Collection: Program
The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.Collection: Needs
Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.Collection: Strong
Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.Collection: Believe
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.Collection: War
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheepCollection: Inspirational
Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.Collection: People
Believe, obey, fight.Collection: Believe
Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.Collection: War
People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved by other slogans...Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.Collection: Tired
You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.Collection: Thinking
For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.Collection: Military
There is no revolution that can change the nature of manCollection: Men
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.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Lying
Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.Collection: Moving
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.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Spiritual