Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
Benito MussoliniPeople are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved by other slogans...Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
Benito MussoliniFascist 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 MussoliniIn Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens.
Benito MussoliniFascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.
Benito MussoliniFascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.
Benito MussoliniYou know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
Benito MussoliniFuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!
Benito MussoliniThe Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
Benito MussoliniI should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
Benito MussoliniThirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
Benito MussoliniI have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.
Benito MussoliniLet us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
Benito MussoliniFor the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
Benito MussoliniLiberty is no longer the virgin, chaste and severe, to be fought for ... we have buried the putrid corpse of liberty ... the Italian people are a race of sheep.
Benito MussoliniThis 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 MussoliniAgainst 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 MussoliniThe keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
Benito MussoliniDemocracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
Benito MussoliniThe League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
Benito MussoliniThe press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.
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