Benito Mussolini
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.Collection: Lying
Liberty is a duty, not a right.Collection: Liberty
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 boringCollection: War
It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.Collection: Government
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.Collection: Suicide
If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!Collection: Giving
War is the normal state of the people.Collection: War
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.Collection: Discipline
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.Collection: Cheer
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.Collection: Education
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.Collection: Rome
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.Collection: Responsibility
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.Collection: Peace
The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.Collection: War
Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.Collection: Artist
What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!Collection: Absolute Freedom
War is to man what maternity is to a womanCollection: War
The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!Collection: Struggle
I want to make my own life a masterpiece.Collection: Want
The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.Collection: Views
Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.Collection: Kings
State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.Collection: Political
Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine!Collection: Italian
Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.Collection: Men
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.Collection: Violence
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.Collection: Political
Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.Collection: Book
I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.Collection: Ideas
Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.Collection: Reality
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.Collection: Heart
We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.Collection: Class
There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual; between the State which demands and the individual who attempts to evade such demands. Because the individual, left to himself, unless he be a saint or hero, always refuses to pay taxes, obey laws, or go to war.Collection: War
At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.Collection: Education
Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.Collection: Journalism
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.Collection: Writing
We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...Collection: Liberty
I am not a collector of deserts!Collection: Desert
Family - see Fascist State.Collection: Liberty
The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.Collection: Italian
Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!Collection: War
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.Collection: Attitude
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.Collection: Italian
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.Collection: Government
The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.Collection: Creation
What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!Collection: Liberty
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.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: War
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.Collection: Gun
Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.Collection: Lying