Benito Mussolini Quotes

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• We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.

  Benito Mussolini

  Arguing, Disagree

  "The Book of Italian Wisdom" by Antonio Santi, Citadel Press, (p. 88), 2003.

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• 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.

  Benito Mussolini

  Beautiful, Men, Talking

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• 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!

  Benito Mussolini

  Sheep, Years, One Day

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• The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

  Benito Mussolini

  Country, Long, Evil

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• All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

  Benito Mussolini

  Politics, States

  Benito Mussolini (1935). “Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions”

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• I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.

  Benito Mussolini

  Thinking, Racist, Know How

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• Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

  Benito Mussolini

  Ignorance, Giving, Advice

  "The Book of Italian Wisdom" by Antonio Santi, Citadel Press, (p. 87), 2003.

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• The fascist state is the corporate state.

  Benito Mussolini

  States, Fascists, Corporate

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• The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

  Benito Mussolini

  Program, Asks

  "A History of Terrorism" by Walter Laqueur, (p. 71), 2001.

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• The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

  Benito Mussolini

  Needs, States, Sole

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• 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.

  Benito Mussolini

  Strong, Men, Political

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• 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.

  Benito Mussolini

  Believe, Pride, Reality

  "Talks with Mussolini". Book by Emil Ludwig, 1932.

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• Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

  Benito Mussolini

  Inspirational, Funny, Sheep

  "ITALY: Duce (1922-43)". content.time.com. August 2, 1943.

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• Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, World, Individual

  Quoted in the Enciclopedia Italiana.

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• 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.

  Benito Mussolini

  People, Secret, May

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• 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.

  Benito Mussolini

  Spiritual, States, Fascists

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• Believe, obey, fight.

  Benito Mussolini

  Believe, Fighting

  Benito Mussolini (1949). “Memoirs, 1942-43: With Documents Relating to the Period”

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• Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

  Benito Mussolini

  Moving, Blood, Wheels

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• 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.

  Benito Mussolini

  Tired, Order, Discipline

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• Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Believe, Doe

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• There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

  Benito Mussolini

  Men, Revolution, Nature Of Man

  Benito Mussolini (2012). “My Autobiography: With "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Benito Mussolini

  Reality, Government, Individualism

  "The Doctrine of Fascism" by Benito Mussolini, Firenze: Vallecchi Editore, (p. 13), 1935.

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• Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

  Benito Mussolini

  Men, Numbers, Despair

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• 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.

  Benito Mussolini

  Spiritual, People, Synthesis

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• For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

  Benito Mussolini

  Military, Rifles, Fifty

  "Benito Mussolini: a biography".

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