Benito Mussolini Quotes

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

Not one rebel or many rebels can change a government by force.

Revolution is always delightful in the preliminary stages. So long as it's a question of getting rid of the people at the top.

Insurrections made by a few who attempt to raise the people in order to achieve a state of affairs that these very people do not understand, must fear defeat, their inevitable end.

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

I was born in revolution.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.

When we overthrew Mubarak, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very naive and very unexperienced in revolutions, we thought that that was it. It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.

Do you trust the government? No? In that case, let’s overthrow it tomorrow.

Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters.

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

This government must go. It is our duty to make sure that it does go.

Comrades, the revolution is on.

… the most sacred right [revolution] to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.

The revolution can only defend itself by attacking.

If a revolution is to succeed, sometimes you must kill.

Revolutions begin with enthusiasm but often end in tears.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?