Quotes About Mussolini

The system which Hitler established—the social reality which so many Germans were so eager to embrace or so willing to endure—the politics which began in a theory and ended in Auschwitz—was: the "total state." The term, from which the adjective "totalitarian" derives, was coined by Hitler's mentor, Mussolini.

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.

Marxists, fascism's first victims, were accustomed to thinking of history as the grand unfolding of deep processes through the clash of economic systems. Even before Mussolini had fully consolidated his power, they were ready with a definition of fascism as "the instrument of the big bourgeoisie for fighting the proletariat when the legal means available to the state proved insufficient to subdue them.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.

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

The term totalitarianism was first used by supporters of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who defined totalitarianism concisely: "Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state." That is to say, totalitarianism is a state in which nothing can be permitted to exist that contradicts a society's ruling ideology.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day. —Benito Mussolini Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. —Winston Churchill

By July we had strawberries, red currants, raspberries, veal, dill, baby turnips, marrow. Mussolini resigned, and Italy capitulated. Roses could be had.

Mussolini would be a powerful example of how the events of 1917 shaped the future—and of the unexpected product of a failed and increasingly bankrupt Wilsonism.

Why are you so afraid of the word 'Fascism,' Doremus? Just a word—just a word! And might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours—not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini—like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days—and have 'em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again.

Quando assunse l'incarico di primo ministro in uno dei principali Stati europei, governato da oltre cinquant'anni con un regime parlamentare, Mussolini aveva 39 anni. Non solo era il più giovane primo ministro della storia d'Italia, ma era deputato appena da un anno e non aveva mai avuto altra esperienza di governo.

Finita la guerra, Mussolini diede vita ai Fasci di combattimento, che volevano essere un movimento antipartito di breve durata, con un programma nazionalista, repubblicano, libertario, antistatalista, tendenzialmente anticapitalista, oltre che naturalmente antibolscevico.

Inoltre, la brevità trascorsa dalla nascita all'ascesa al potere aiuta anche a comprendere i motivi per i quali Mussolini e il partito fascista impiegarono tre anni prima di instaurare un regime a partito unico, mentre il bolscevismo e il nazismo, movimenti politici più anziani, e quindi più coesi e meglio organizzati, poterono farlo nel giro di pochi mesi.

Hitler and Mussolini independently but simultaneously decided to intervene on the same side in Spain. This in turn led to a formal meeting between Hitler and Foreign Minister Ciano in October 1936, after which the formation of a "Rome-Berlin Axis" was announced.

only because so many were determined to label fascism right-wing that populism under Mussolini was redefined as such. After all, the notion that political power is and should be vested in the people was a classical liberal position. Populism was a more radical version of this position. It's still a "power to the people" ideology

It has been said that the excavations conducted under Mussolini during those fourteen years "added more to our knowledge of Augustan Rome than the previous fourteen centuries had provided.

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

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people." -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)

The delay in the application of the policy to books has several explanations. For one thing, Blackshirts were not, nor have they yet become, bookworms; and the intellectual bread of Mussolini himself is made, usually, of clippings. They did not care too much about things which they could not hate since they usually did not know them....

A technique favored by Mussolini's squadristi thugs. Political foes were force-fed large quantities of castor oil—up to a quart, according to The Straight Dope. Who does that? Moreover, why? To kill by dehydration? To humiliate? I could find no satisfying answer, not even from the International Castor Oil Association, which, despite large quantities of emails, had no comment.

monument to Victor Emmanuel II, a horrific typewriter-shaped structure of white Brescian marble, on the Piazza Venezia, shrouded in malign traffic fumes. Mussolini delivered his harangues here; I preferred to avoid it whenever possible.

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

Outside Milan, the couple visits the gas station where Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress were hanged by an angry mob.