Benito Mussolini (Politician)

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

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.

— Benito Mussolini art

Three cheers for the . Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

— Benito Mussolini war

We deny the existence of two classes, because there are many more than two classes. We deny that human history can be explained in terms of economics. We deny your . That is a luxury article which only the elevated can practise, because peoples are passionately bound to their native soil. 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.

— Benito Mussolini art

Everything I have said and done in these last years isby intuition. 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, that all ideologies are mere fictions, the modern relativist infers that everybody has the right to create for himself his own ideology and to attempt to enforce it with all the energy of which he is capable.

— Benito Mussolini truth

Our program is simple: we wish to govern Italy. They ask us for programs but there are already too many. It is not programs that are wanting for the salvation of Italy but men and will power.

— Benito Mussolini power

Liberty is a duty, not a right.

— Benito Mussolini right

is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You inwill see that some day.

— Benito Mussolini beautiful

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

— Benito Mussolini art

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

— Benito Mussolini wit

Above all, 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. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put a man in front of himself in the alternative of life and death.

— Benito Mussolini life

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.

— Benito Mussolini you

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

— Benito Mussolini war

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 reality

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

— Benito Mussolini life

I owe most to . 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.

— Benito Mussolini power

I don't like the look of him.

— Benito Mussolini

The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes how are not blinded by dogmatism, is that men are perhaps weary of Liberty. They have a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.

— Benito Mussolini people

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 ,and .

— Benito Mussolini history

I am not a collector of deserts!

— 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."

— Benito Mussolini art

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

— Benito Mussolini peace

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.

— Benito Mussolini history

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

— Benito Mussolini freedom

War is the normal state of the people.

— Benito Mussolini people

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

— Benito Mussolini live

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

— Benito Mussolini

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

— Benito Mussolini intelligence

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

— Benito Mussolini wit

Believe, obey, fight.

— Benito Mussolini fight

Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

— Benito Mussolini time

I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.

— Benito Mussolini people

Shoot me in the chest.

— Benito Mussolini

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

— Benito Mussolini beautiful

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