Benito Mussolini quotes - page 3

Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician and journalist, best known as the founder of Italian Fascism and dictator of Italy during World War II. His leadership transformed Italy into a totalitarian state and allied the country with Nazi Germany. He played a central role in European politics of the early 20th century and remains a controversial historical figure. Here are 162 of his quotes:

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism is not an article for export.

Benito Mussolini

The law of socialism is that of the desert: a tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye. Socialism is a rude and bitter truth, which was born in the conflict of opposing forces and in violence. Socialism is war, and woe to those who are cowardly in war. They will be defeated.

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It is no longer economy aiming at individual profit, but economy concerned with collective interest.

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I bequeath the republic to the republicans and not to the monarchists, and the work of social reform to the socialist and not to the middle class.

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Although we can discuss the question of what socialism is, what is its program and what are its tactics, one thing is obvious: the official Italian Socialist Party has been reactionary and absolutely conservative.

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...It was therefore not sufficient to create-as some have said superficially-an anti-altar to the altar of socialism. It was necessary to imagine a wholly new political conception, adequate to the living reality of the twentieth century, overcoming at the same time the ideological worship of liberalism, the limited horizons of various spent and exhausted democracies, and finally the violently Utopian spirit of Bolshevism.

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We want an extraordinary heavy taxation, with a progressive character, on capital, that will represent an authentic partial expropriation of all wealth; seizures of all assets of religious congregations and suppression of all the ecclesiastic Episcopal revenues, in what constitutes an enormous deficit of the nation and a privilege for a minority; revisions of all contracts made by the war ministers and seizure of 85% of all war profits.

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The Fascist State directs and controls the entrepreneurs, whether it be in our fisheries or in our heavy industry in the Val d'Aosta. There the State actually owns the mines and carries on transport, for the railways are state property. So are many of the factories... We term it state intervention... If anything fails to work properly, the State intervenes. The capitalists will go on doing what they are told, down to the very end. They have no option and cannot put up any fight. Capital is not God; it is only a means to an end.

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You want to know what fascism is like? It is like your New Deal!

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You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me.

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I declare that henceforth capital and labor shall have equal rights and duties as brothers in the fascist family.

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Above all, Fascism, in so far as 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. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism - born of a renunciation of struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put a man in front of himself in the alternative of life and death.

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[Marx was] the magnificent philosopher of working class violence.

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Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state. And if I dare to introduce to Italy state capitalism or state socialism, which is the reverse side of the medal, I will have the necessary subjective and objective conditions to do it.

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Italy is not a capitalist country according to the meaning now conventionally assigned to that term.

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The Fascist State has never tried to create its own God, as at one moment Robespierre and the wildest extremists of the Convention tried to do; nor does it vainly seek to obliterate religion from the hearts of men as does Bolshevism: Fascism respects the God of the ascetics, of the saints, of the heroes, and also God as seen and prayed to by the simple and primitive heart of the people.

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Militarism! Here is the monstrous leech that is incessantly sucking the blood of the people and its best energy! Here is the target for our attacks! We must put an end to barbarism, proclaim that the army is now a highly organized school of crime and that it exists solely to protect bourgeois capital and profits. We must not be deterred from proclaiming ourselves international socialists. We recognize no borders and no flags, we hate all steel, every institution that exist to kill men, waste energy, strangle the advance of the workers.

Benito Mussolini

I know the Communists. I know them because some of them are my children...

Benito Mussolini

In the whole negative part, we are alike. We and the Russians are against liberals, against democrats, against parliament.

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I don't like the look of him.

Benito Mussolini

Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.

Benito Mussolini