Benito Mussolini

Politician

1883-07-29 – 1945-04-28

Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician and dictator who founded Italian Fascism. He ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 and aligned the country with Nazi Germany in World War II. He was captured and executed by Italian partisans in 1945.

Quotes by Benito Mussolini

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
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I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are not ended.Capitalism has borne the monstrous burden of the war and today still has the strength to shoulder the burdens of peace. ... It is not simply and solely an accumulation of wealth, it is an elaboration, a selection, a co-ordination of values which is the work of centuries. ... Many think, and I myself am one of them, that capitalism is scarcely at the beginning of its story.
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty
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It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
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State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.
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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty
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It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
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I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are not ended.Capitalism has borne the monstrous burden of the war and today still has the strength to shoulder the burdens of peace. ... It is not simply and solely an accumulation of wealth, it is an elaboration, a selection, a co-ordination of values which is the work of centuries. ... Many think, and I myself am one of them, that capitalism is scarcely at the beginning of its story.
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The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
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Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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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.
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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
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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.
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The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
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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.
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