Quotes from Benito Mussolini

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

Fascism is not an article for export.

Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

Fascism is not an article for export.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.

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.

Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

Fascism is a religious concept.

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.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

War is to man as motherhood is to woman.

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.

The Italian proletariat needs a blood bath for its force to be renewed.