Benito Mussolini Quotes

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

Why do you all push us around?

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Oppression is the essence of power.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold onto the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own system of repression.

A new kind of slavery will emerge. It will probably adopt the cruelest form of domination the community could impose upon the individual and the state upon the community.

When the people are sheep, the government is always a wolf.

the plain fact that throughout the world today organized groups of men by monopoly of economic and physical power, legal enactment and intellectual training are limiting with determination and unflagging zeal the development of other groups; and that the concentration of particularly economic power today puts the majority of mankind into slavery to the rest. But one thing is sure and that is that these ancestors of mine and their descendants have had a common history; have suffered a common disaster and have one long memory.

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors…. The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood/

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must

I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.

It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.

People who are divided are easier to control.

I don't know why people like being oppressed.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.