142 Quotes by Benito Mussolini

It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state?

Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.

Italy wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary.

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.

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.

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

Fascism is not an article for export.

What is freedom? There is no such thing as absolute freedom!

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