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"Fascism is not an article for export."
"Our future lies in Europe."
"The will of the people is weak, the spirit of a nation is strong."
"Make the impossible possible."
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles."
"There is only one race, the human race."
"You may have the universe if I may have Italy."
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"It's good to trust others, but not to do so is much better."
"Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who reason."
"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history."
"We must govern, not because we wish to, but because there is no one else to govern in our place."
"The tricolored flame is smoke in the nostrils of Bohr, Einstein, Planck; a steam cloud in the eyes of Morrow; it is peanut dust in the wind of glory."
"Make Italy proud of you, for those who once put our name in the Pantheon are already dust."
"The end of a regime that brooked no rival voices – until the voices swelled to a sea."
"A doctrine, such as Fascism, could not be formulated except by the chief and for the chief."
"Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's."
"Let us have a single banner, a single commitment, a single decision - yours!"
"It is the state that educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."
"We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty."
"Fascism is a religious concept."
"War is to man what maternity is to a woman."
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"It is the state that educates its citizens."
"I am the state."
"The maxim that society exists only for the well-being and freedom of the individuals composing it does not seem to be in conformity with nature's plans."
"If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, nobody notices."
"It is not the government's job to regulate the economy."
"We must always remember that the colonist is pretty much a gentleman - but keep in mind also that he is a good deal of a cad."
"Our future lies in Asia."
"The only thing 'wrong' with Mussolini in Italy was that he was 'pro-German' after I had warned him I would have to declare war if he invaded Austria."
"The atom bombs are a pox on the house of science."
"People are more likely to fall in love with the first person they meet who has qualities they admire; a repeated acquaintance avoids a depth of passion."
"Preventive war is a myth: a stupid invention."
"The Italian people are a race of lazy slugabeds, good-for-nothings."
"It's good to trust others but not to do so is much better."
"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."
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"Make alliances with beasts, they are better than humans. They are faithful and honest, and they do not lie."
"There will never be Italy concordant, pacific, vivacious, thrifty, just, with a good government, unless the foes of all this concord, this peace, this energy, this sobriety, this justice, this good government, are exterminated."
"To remain neutral in situations of injustice makes you an accomplice to the oppressor."
"Fascism 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 and raises him to conscious membership in a spiritual society."
"Imperialism has now been definitely swallowed up by the concepts of the exponents of autarchy. This confirms the state of mind of Fascist Italy."
"Liberty is a duty, not a right."
"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."
"The measures adopted to restore public order are: first of all the elimination of the so-called subversive elements."
"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."
"There is only one party in the state, the Fascist Party."
"Mussolini was not a fool. He realised that Fascism had some of the characteristics of a religion, and he wished to make them more accentuated."
"The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito."
"Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses what you are. As words are the labels, or symbols, for mental preconceptions, so voice is the raw experience."
"Inactivity is death."
"Every anarchist is a baffled dictator."
"Believe, obey, fight."
"The functioning of a modern industrial and commercial society is impossible without credit."
"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."
"I don't care what people call me, as long as there is a derogatory comment in front of it."
"Many refuse my film work, but I do the films I want to do."
"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if they have to fight."
"Secrecy is the principle of tyranny."
"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."
"Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep."
"We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them."
"There are many ways of being despicable, but the most despicable of all is to be a bourgeois."
"One might think this a fairly good war movie, but that is not enough. We must give our people more. We must not only need to fight, but must need to fight and win."
"I am war. To wage war is to be alive."
"The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out."
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
"Freedom is not a right, it is a duty."
"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtues, gives them a consciousness of their mission, and welds them into unity."
"The function of a citizen and a soldier is not peaceful but belligerent."
"I am the state. I alone am the representative of the people."
"The 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."
"Mussolini wants peace because his only aim is the good of Italy and the future of the Italian people."
"I do not care what people think of me, so long as I am allowed to do as I think is right."
"It is the State which, as the expression of a universal ethical will, creates the right... It is the State which, as the expression of a universal ethical will, creates the right."
"One may smile and smile and be a villain."
"We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."
"I trust no one, not even myself."
"The sanctity of private property will be changed, that will be done. But it must be changed in the interest of the community."
"I am not a collector of paintings, but of men."
"It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep."
"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism."
"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."
"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
"Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts."
"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."
"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."
"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
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