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
Benito Mussolini quotes about
I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.
Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.
The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.
Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.
Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens.
Fascism is not an article for export.
Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.