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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens.

War is the normal state of the people.

The working people are bound to their native shoes.

Inactivity is death.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

Fascism is not an article for export.

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

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

We must give Italians a sense of race.

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

The fascist state is the corporate state.

Fascism is a religious concept.

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.

Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!

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

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.

Liberty is a duty, not a right.

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.

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

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!

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state

A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

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

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes

We become strongest, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look for moral gudance

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

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose ... mine!

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

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

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power

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.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth,a bomb in our hand,and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.

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.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

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.

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

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

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

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

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

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

Italy wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

I am not a collector of deserts!

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty