Benito Mussolini > Quotes

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

“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

“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

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

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

“We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty”
― 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

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

“Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.”
― 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

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

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

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

“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

“The truth is that men are tired of liberty.”
― Benito Mussolini

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" <-- This is a fake quote, it appears in none of the writings or recorded speeches of Mussolini.
― Benito Mussolini”
― Benito Mussolini

“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing agaisnt the state”
― Benito Mussolini

“Liberty is a duty, not a right.”
― 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 function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.”
― Benito Mussolini

“Fascism should rightly be called corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.”
― Benito Mussolini

“You must always be doing things and obviously succeeding. The hard part is to keep people always at the window because of the spectacle you put on for them. And you must do this for years.”
― Benito Mussolini

“Nessun fenomeno al mondo può impedire al sole di risorgere.”
― Benito Mussolini

“Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
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 a religious concept.
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.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.”
― Benito Mussolini

“Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.”
― Benito Mussolini

“Abbiamo dei vecchi e dei nuovi conti da regolare: li regoleremo.”
― Benito Mussolini