Benito Mussolini Quotes (36 Quotes)

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Fascism is not an article for export.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

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

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.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.

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.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.

Fascism is a religious concept.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

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

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

Everyone thinks that fascists aren't worth anything, but we are here to commemorate them.

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

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inactivity is death.

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.

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.

CURZON What is your foreign programme MUSSOLINI My foreign policy is Nothing for Nothing'.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

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

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

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.