Benito Mussolini > Quotes

“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
― Benito Mussolini

“We become strongest, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look for moral gudance”
― Benito Mussolini

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power”
― Benito Mussolini

“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

“Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.”
― Benito Mussolini

“We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty”
― Benito Mussolini

“Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.”
― Benito Mussolini

“The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people." -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)”
― Benito Mussolini

“A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!”
― Benito Mussolini

“I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are not ended.

Capitalism has borne the monstrous burden of the war and today still has the strength to shoulder the burdens of peace. ...

It is not simply and solely an accumulation of wealth, it is an elaboration, a selection, a co-ordination of values which is the work of centuries. ...

Many think, and I myself am one of them, that capitalism is scarcely at the beginning of its story.”
― Benito Mussolini

“English to Italian translation
Il fascismo, più che ritiene e osserva il futuro e lo sviluppo dell'umanità, a prescindere da considerazioni politiche del momento, non crede né alla possibilità né all'utilità della pace perpetua. which means 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

“The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state ”
― Benito Mussolini

“Let us have a dagger between our teeth,a bomb in our hand,and an infinite scorn in our hearts.”
― Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism

“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

“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

“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.”
― Benito Mussolini