110 Quotes by Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini, a polarizing figure in history, was an Italian politician who rose to power as the leader of the National Fascist Party. Mussolini's political career was marked by his authoritarian rule, nationalist policies, and alliance with Nazi Germany.
As the founder of fascism, Mussolini implemented a totalitarian regime, suppressing political opposition and implementing policies that severely curtailed civil liberties. His aggressive foreign policies, including the invasion of Ethiopia and alignment with Adolf Hitler, contributed to the destabilization of Europe and ultimately led to Italy's defeat in World War II.
Mussolini's reign was marked by oppression, propaganda, and the violation of human rights, leaving a dark and lasting legacy. His actions and ideology serve as a somber reminder of the dangers of authoritarianism, xenophobia, and the erosion of democratic values. The rise and fall of Benito Mussolini serves as a cautionary tale, emphasizing the importance of upholding democratic principles, safeguarding individual rights, and learning from the mistakes of history to build a more just and inclusive world.
Benito Mussolini Quotes
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.
We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
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
I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.
The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
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.
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.
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.
Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine!
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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.
Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
War is to man what maternity is to a woman
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep
Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.
We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.
There is no revolution that can change the nature of man
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
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.
It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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 state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
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.
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.
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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.
Believe, obey, fight.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Fascism is a religious concept.
The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!
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.
Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...
Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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.
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.
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.
What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.
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.
It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.
Liberty is a duty, not a right.
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.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.
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 fascist state is the corporate state.
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.
For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views.
War is the normal state of the people.
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.
What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.
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.
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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.
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.
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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.
The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.
Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.
The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.
Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.
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.
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.
Fascism is not an article for export.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.
What is liberty? There is no such thing as absolute liberty!
Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.
Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!
Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.
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.
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.
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.
It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.
The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
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.
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.
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.
The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed.
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.
Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.
It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.
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.
We must give Italians a sense of race.
The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!
The working people are bound to their native shores.
Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
Italy, wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.
Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day.
― Benito Mussolini Quotes
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