Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussoliniwas an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until he was ousted in 1943. He ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Known as Il Duce, Mussolini was the founder of Italian fascism...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth29 July 1883
CityPredappio, Italy
CountryItaly
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.
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.
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 function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.
War is the normal state of the people.
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.
You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
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.
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better.
I am not a collector of deserts!
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.