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Benito Mussolini Quotes

1883–1945 Italy

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until his deposition in 1943, and "Duce" of Italian Fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919 until his execution in 1945 by Italian partisans.

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Also known as: Mussolini, Mussolini, Benito, My Autobiography (Mussolini)

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Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

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

Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state.

Fascism 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.

The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)

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

The citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity.

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

La Lotta di Classe (1910)

I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

Science is now in the process of destroying religious dogma. The dogma of the divine creation is recognized as absurd.

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

God does not exist—religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.

No nation can become greater in which there are enormous masses condemned to the conditions of life of prehistoric humanity.

Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)

Religion is a species of mental disease. It has always had a pathological reaction on mankind.

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

Inside every anarchist is a failed dictator.

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

As long as I have a pen in my hand and a revolver in my pocket, I fear no one.

As the past century was the century of capitalist power, the twentieth century is the century of power and glory of labour.

Religion is a species of mental disease.

Our destiny cannot become universal unless it is transplanted to the pagan ground of Rome. By means of Paganism Rome found her form and found the means of upholding herself in the world.

Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Benito Mussolini (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.