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Woe betide the Italian people if, while others are engaging in super-imperialism, they do not at least engage in nationalism!

— Alfredo Rocco

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In sociology, just as in biology, uniformity and immobility are death.

The nation that refuses to behave nationalistically, when all the other nations are doing so, is fatally destined to die.

The stronger and more powerful a state, the highest and richer the life of its inhabitants.

Fascism on the other hand, faces squarely the problem of the right of the state and of the duty of individuals. Individual rights are only recognized insofar as they are implied in the rights of the state. In this preeminence of duty we find the highest ethical value of fascism.

The Political Doctrine of Fascism (1925)

For liberalism, the individual is the end and society the means… For fascism, society is the end, individuals the means, and its whole life consists in using individuals as instruments for its social ends. The state, therefore, guards and protects the welfare and development of individuals not for their exclusive interest but because of the identity of the needs of individuals with those of society as a whole.

The Political Doctrine of Fascism (1925)

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