The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

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.

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

In the final analysis, each of us is responsible for what we are. We cannot blame it on our mothers, who, thanks to Freud, have replaced money as the root of all evil.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.

All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.