Benito Mussolini Quotes

Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

The public power of all society is above every soul contained in the same society.

Government is force.

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

There is no force greater than the state force.

Whether the state be Marxist or capitalist, it makes no difference. The dominant ideology is that of sovereignty.

The ordered organization of coercion we call the State.

We still give the nation state the monopoly on the legal use of violence in our own defense.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil.

The basic principle that governs the relation between a state and its people --a total and unconditional subordination and submission of individuals and classes to the state…

It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole structure of society implies it, of necessity. The more we mobilize the forces of nature, the more must we mobilize men and the more do we require order.

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

All government is an ugly necessity.

I too am a government.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.