Benito Mussolini famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Beautiful #Practice #Democracy
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Power #Tyrants #Mergers
I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Want #Masterpiece
The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Program
Fascism is a religious concept.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Religious #Agnostic #Fascism
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Political #Spheres #Doctrine
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Violence #Moral #Immoral
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Heart #Hands #Leader
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.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Real #Giving #Unity
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Historical #Century #Fascism
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.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Suicide #Life And Love #Struggle
The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Education #Spiritual #Country
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Faces #Building #Mask
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Giving #Unity #Citizens
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.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Believe #Political #Humanity
Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Government #Political #Humanity
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
-- Benito Mussolini

#States
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.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Attitude #Energy #Facts
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

#Mean #May #Individualism
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Party #Mean #Hands
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

#Lying #Animal #Intelligent
Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!
-- Benito Mussolini

#War #Italian #Dawn
If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
-- Benito Mussolini

#Giving #Pleasure #Honour
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.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Lying #Struggle #Two
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.
-- Benito Mussolini

#Reality #Government #Individualism
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. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism - born of a renunciation of the 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 peoples who have courage to meet it.
-- Benito Mussolini

#War #Believe #Struggle

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