You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
Benito MussoliniState 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 MussoliniFascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.
Benito MussoliniIf you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!
Benito MussoliniGiven 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