Benito Mussolini Quotes

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

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.

The Fascist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom

In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens.

Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.

They [the Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world.

The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.

Socialists should be delighted to find at last a socialist (Mussolini) who speaks and thinks as responsible rulers do

A totalitarian state will harmonize in Spain the operation of all the capabilities and energy in the country

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

I think the Mussolinean institution of a third way alternative to comunism is currently still very relevant.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere.

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity

That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.

Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

Extensive and organized power over large populations does not suffice to make a nation

Spend most of the day reading fascisti pamphlets. They certainly have turned the whole country into an army. From cradle to grave one is cast in the mould of fascismo and there can be no escape…. It is certainly a socialist experiment in that it destroys individuality. It also destroys liberty.

Even the most repressive regimes seek to maintain the fiction that they have the people’s interest at heart.