Founder / Co Founder: Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale, Cinecittà, National Fascist Party, Grand Council of Fascism, Royal Academy of Italy
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian journalist and politician, who rose to prominence in the first half of the 20th century as the head of the National Fascist Party as well as the Prime Minister of Italy. Mussolini became the Prime Minister of Italy in 1922 and continued to rule the country till 1943, during which he turned the form of governance into a dictatorship. He started off his career as a politician, as a member of the ‘Italian Socialist Party’, but eventually he fell out with the leadership after they chose to remain neutral regarding Italy’s participation in the First World War. After serving the ‘Royal Italian Army’ in the First World War, he became increasingly nationalistic in his outlook and eventually led the ‘National Fascist Party’. His time as the dictator of Italy was punctuated with brutal crackdown on any kind of opposition and his decision of participating in the Second World War proved to be a disastrous one for the country. His legacy is an infamous one but at the same time he remains one of the most fascinating political figures in modern history. Here are some of his quotes and thoughts which have been scanned from his life and work that will give you a glimpse into his mind. Following are the most famous quotations and sayings by Benito Mussolini.
If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.
Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.
Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.
Benito Mussolini
The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!
Benito Mussolini
Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the true sovereignty in actual fact resides in other forces which are sometimes irresponsible and secret.
Benito Mussolini
It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
Benito Mussolini
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
The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state
Benito Mussolini
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people." -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)
The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
Benito Mussolini
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.
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
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
War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin.... Today's youth are moved by other slogans...Order, Hierarchy, Discipline.
Benito Mussolini
I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.
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