Benito Mussolini quotes - page 6

The Truth Apparent, apparent to everyone's eyes who 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)
When the war is over, in the world's social revolution that will be followed by a more equitable distribution of the earth's riches, due account must be kept of the sacrifices and of the discipline maintained by the Italian workers. The Fascist revolution will make another decisive step to shorten social distances. View quote
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The socialist revolution was a pure and simple question of ‘force.'... Between the [bourgeoisie and the proletariat] no accord is possible. One must disappear. The weaker will be ‘eliminated.' The class struggle is therefore a question of ‘force.' View quote
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War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to face it. View quote
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Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power. View quote
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"The Doctrine of Fascism", June 1932. Quoted in Paul O'Brien, Mussolini in the First World War: The Journalist, the Soldier, the Fascist. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Also in Peter N. Stearns, World History in Documents: A Comparative Reader. NYU Press, 2008. View quote
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My Autobiography, New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1928. Reprinted in Benito Mussolini, My Rise And Fall, Volumes 1-2 Da Capo Press, 1998 (p.40). View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty. View quote
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The measures adopted to restore public order are: First of all, the elimination of the so-called subversive elements. ... They were elements of disorder and subversion. On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results. (Benito Mussolini)
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. View quote
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The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for it force to be renewed. View quote
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Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day. View quote
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For this I have been and am a socialist. View quote
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Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes. View quote
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We are fighting to impose a higher social justice. View quote
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As the past century was the century of capitalist power, the twentieth century is the century of power and glory of labour. View quote
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For Fascism, the growth of Empire, that is to say the expansion of the nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite a sign of decadence. View quote
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"The Doctrine of Fascism", June 1932. Quoted in Marco Piraino, Stefano Fiorito, Fascist identity : political project and doctrine of facism. Lulu. com, 2009. (p. 107) View quote
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It may be expected that this will be a century of authority, a century of the Left, a century of Fascism. (Benito Mussolini)
The Doctrine of Fascism, June 1932. Quoted in Charles Floyd Delzell, Mediterranean Fascism, 1919-45 Springer, 1971. View quote
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Inactivity is death. View quote
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"Religious man" is an abnormality and "religion" is the certain cause of epidemic diseases of the mind which require the care of alienists. View quote
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When dealing with such a race as Slavic - inferior and barbarian - we must not pursue the carrot, but the stick policy [...] We should not be afraid of new victims [...] The Italian border should run across the Brenner Pass, Monte Nevoso and the Dinaric Alps: I would say we can easily sacrifice 500,000 barbaric Slavs for 50,000 Italians. View quote
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