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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.
Italy Fascists Heads of state Journalists Military leaders Also known as: Mussolini, Mussolini, Benito, My Autobiography (Mussolini)
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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.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
Speech (1928)
Men do not move mountains; it is only necessary to create the illusion that mountains move.
I want to make my own life a masterpiece.
Talks with Mussolini (1932)
For Fascism, the growth of Empire, that is to say the expansion of the nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite a sign of decadence.
It is blood which moves the wheels of history.
Christ is dead and his teachings moribund.
We are fighting to impose a higher social justice. The others are fighting to maintain the privileges of caste and class. We are proletarian nations that rise up against the plutocrats.
You cannot get rid of me because I am and always will be a socialist. You hate me because you still love me.
Socialism is not Arcadian and peaceful. We do not believe in the sacredness of human life.
Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!
Fascism was not the protector of any one class, but a supreme regulator of the relations between all citizens of a state.
We are syndicalists, because we think that by means of the mass it may be possible to determine an economic readjustment...
Mussolini as Revealed in his Political Speeches (November 1914—August 1923) (1923)
We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.
The Lazio Speeches (1936)
"Religious man" is an abnormality and "religion" is the certain cause of epidemic diseases of the mind which require the care of alienists.
God Does Not Exist (1904)
If the 19th was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.
The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.
The Lazio Speeches (1936)
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