Benito Mussolini Quotes

We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.

If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep!

I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.

The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.

Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine!

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

Blood alone literally moves the wheels of history.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.

There is no revolution that can change the nature of man

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

People 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.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

I 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.

This 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.

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

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.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Believe, obey, fight.

Fascism is a religious concept.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Liberty is a duty, not a right.

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

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

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.