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• This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

  Benito Mussolini

  Lying, Animal, Intelligent

  Christopher Hibbert, Benito Mussolini (1962). “Benito Mussolini: a biography”

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• The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

  Benito Mussolini

  Fate, Birth Rate, Empires

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• It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

  Benito Mussolini

  Writing, Winning, Hands

  "Famous Lines : A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations" by Robert Andrews. (p. 330), 1997.

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• Fascism is a religious concept.

  Benito Mussolini

  Religious, Agnostic, Fascism

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• What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

  Benito Mussolini

  Blood, Evil, Needs

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• The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.

  Benito Mussolini

  Education, Country, Spiritual

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• Liberty is a duty, not a right.

  Benito Mussolini

  Liberty, Duty

  "Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism". Book by Tim Redman, p. 114, Speech on the 5th anniversary of the Combat Leagues (March 24, 1924), 1991.

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• The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Italian, Lakes

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

  Benito Mussolini

  People, Cynical, Religion

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• 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.

  Benito Mussolini

  Cheer, War, Three

  "The Menace of Fascism" by John Strachey, (p. 65), 1933.

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• We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

  Benito Mussolini

  Responsibility, Stories, Hierarchy

  "Through Fascism to World Power: A History of the Revolution in Italy" by Ion Smeaton Munro, Books for Libraries Press, 1933.

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• I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring

  Benito Mussolini

  War, People, World

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• It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

  Benito Mussolini

  Government, Would Be, Useless

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• If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

  Benito Mussolini

  Giving, Pleasure, Give Me

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• War is the normal state of the people.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, People, Normal

  "ITALY: Duce (1922-43)". content.time.com. August 2, 1943.

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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.

  Benito Mussolini

  Being Strong, Reality, No Friends

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• The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.

  Benito Mussolini

  Suicide, Life And Love, Struggle

  "The Doctrine of Fascism". Book by Benito Mussolini, 1932.

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• For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

  Benito Mussolini

  Two, World, Rags

  "Mussolini in the Making". Book by Gaudens Megaro, 1938.

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• I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

  Benito Mussolini

  Discipline, Energy, Tactics

  "The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism" by Arthur Versluis, Oxford University Press, (p. 39), 2006.

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• Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

  Benito Mussolini

  Government, Political, Humanity

  Benito Mussolini (2012). “My Autobiography: With "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism"”, p.236, Courier Corporation

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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.

  Benito Mussolini

  Writing, Winning, Hands

  "Famous Lines : A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations" by Robert Andrews, (p. 330), 1997.

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• One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.

  Benito Mussolini

  Peace, War, Years

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• As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

  Benito Mussolini

  Attitude, Political, Doctrine

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• The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

  Benito Mussolini

  Facts, Ethical, States

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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.

  Benito Mussolini

  Party, Mean, Hands

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