Benito Mussolini Quotes


"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Comedy, Fraud, Socialism)

"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."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Fate, First, Nations)

"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: History, People, Saints)

"The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Doctrine, Fascism, State)

"The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Eagles, Sparrows)

"Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Infinite)

"The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Army)

"The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Time, Blood, Fool, Will)

"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: War, Courage, Nobility, Tension)

"War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Peace, War, Man, Woman)

"We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Friends, Guidance)

"The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Building, Liberal, State)

"Every anarchist is a baffled dictator."
- Benito Mussolini
"The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable."
- Benito Mussolini
"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Democracy, Practice, Theory)

"It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Trust)

"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: History, Religion, Fascism, Will)

"Fascism is a religious concept."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Fascism, Religious)

"Fascism is not an article for export."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Fascism)

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Government, Power, Corporate, Fascism)

"Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Peace, Development, Possibility, Fascism, Future, Humanity)

"Inactivity is death."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Death)

"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: History, People, Battle)

"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Virtue, Consciousness, Mission, State, Unity)

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Power, Corporate, Fascism, State)

"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Nothing, State)