Benito Mussolini Quotes – Wisdom and Controversy
Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merging of state and corporate power. – Benito Mussolini
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice, it is a fallacy. – Benito Mussolini
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. – Benito Mussolini
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to make it. – Benito Mussolini
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. – Benito Mussolini
I am the State. – Benito Mussolini
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. – Benito Mussolini
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
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. – Benito Mussolini
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep. – Benito Mussolini
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building. – Benito Mussolini
The truth is that men are tired of liberty. – Benito Mussolini
The citizen in the Fascist State must be a person with rights and duties. – Benito Mussolini
We become stronger, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance. – Benito Mussolini
I believe in only one thing: the power of human will. – Benito Mussolini
To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole. – Benito Mussolini
The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile. – Benito Mussolini
The people of Italy want peace. They want peace above all else. – Benito Mussolini
We must keep our present autocratic government in power. Democracy is incapable of governing. – Benito Mussolini
A nation arises out of conditions of geographical necessity, and the fact of language.” – Benito Mussolini
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. – Benito Mussolini
Fascism is not an article for export but for home consumption. – Benito Mussolini
We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.” – Benito Mussolini
The truth is that men are tired of liberty. – Benito Mussolini
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death. – Benito Mussolini
We declare war on socialism, not because it is socialist, but because it has opposed nationalism. – Benito Mussolini
We deny that liberty can be divorced from nationality. – Benito Mussolini
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission within the unity of the homeland, in the sphere of that higher social morality which history confirms has been the moral characteristic of the Italian race. – Benito Mussolini
The truth is that men are tired of liberty. – Benito Mussolini
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator. – Benito Mussolini
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. – Benito Mussolini
We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them. – Benito Mussolini
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable. – Benito Mussolini
Italian fascism is a right-wing movement, yet there is nothing Fascist about the Fascist manifestos. – Benito Mussolini
Fascism is not racism…. Fascism is the conquest instinct which serves to heightened the vitality of human race. – Benito Mussolini
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission within the unity of the homeland, in the sphere of that higher social morality which history confirms has been the moral characteristic of the Italian race. – Benito Mussolini
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less. – Benito Mussolini
Believe, obey, fight. – Benito Mussolini
A nation arises out of conditions of geographical necessity, and the fact of language. – Benito Mussolini
The weaker must give way to the stronger. – Benito Mussolini
Let us not forget that violence does not reside in the ability to do harm, but in the right to do so. – Benito Mussolini
I believe in Italy’s original mission as the carrier of human values, not just its artistic and historical values, but in its moral and civil commitment to protect the values of mankind. – Benito Mussolini
The moral values of a nation are always closely linked to its civility and power. – Benito Mussolini
The State cannot be limited by anything or anyone; it is an unlimited organism that embraces all life in its embrace. – Benito Mussolini
In the Fascist State, religion is considered as one of the deepest manifestations of the social identity of the nation and is therefore an essential attribute of its true reality. – Benito Mussolini