Benito Mussolini was an Italian nationalist who created Italian Fascism and led Italy as Prime Minister from 1922-1943.
Initially a socialist he switched to fascism during World War I and inspired Adolf Hitler.
In 1939 Mussolini allied with Hitler through the Pact of Steel committing military and economic support in war.
Mussolini was removed from power in 1943 by King Victor Emmanuel III and executed by communist partisans in 1945.
His body was publicly displayed to confirm his death. Mussolini initially pursued political power through elections but eventually seized control by force in 1922.
By 1925 he had ended Italian democracy and established a dictatorship.
Below are some of the popular quotes by Benito Mussolini.
Top 10 Benito Mussolini Quotes
The truth is that men are tired of liberty. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Journalism is not a profession, but a mission. ~ Benito Mussolini.
It’s good to trust others but not to do so is much better. ~ Benito Mussolini.
We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. ~ Benito Mussolini.
The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime. ~ Benito Mussolini.
The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Famous Benito Mussolini Quotes
The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. ~ Benito Mussolini.
There is no revolution that can change the nature of man. ~ Benito Mussolini.
It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity. ~ Benito Mussolini.
If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep! ~ Benito Mussolini.
There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral. ~ Benito Mussolini.
I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Fascism recognizes the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which different interests are coordinated and harmonized in the unity of the State. ~ Benito Mussolini.
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Fascist education is moral, physical, social, and military: it aims to create a complete and harmoniously developed human, a fascist one according to our views. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere. ~ Benito Mussolini.
I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes. ~ Benito Mussolini.
If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable. ~ Benito Mussolini.
You must always be doing things and obviously succeeding. The hard part is to keep people always at the window because of the spectacle you put on for them. And you must do this for years. ~ Benito Mussolini.
I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of usefulness are not ended. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Best Benito Mussolini Quotes
The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state. ~ Benito Mussolini.
The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after. ~ Benito Mussolini.
One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice, it is a fallacy. ~ Benito Mussolini.
We are fighting to impose a higher social justice. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. ~ Benito Mussolini.
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable. ~ Benito Mussolini.
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean or to look to for moral guidance. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Capitalism has borne the monstrous burden of the war and today still has the strength to shoulder the burdens of peace. ~ Benito Mussolini.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Fascism is a religious concept. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Popular Benito Mussolini Quotes
A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization! ~ Benito Mussolini
If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Science is now in the process of destroying religious dogma. The dogma of the divine creation is recognized as absurd. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Every anarchist is a baffled dictator. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today! ~ Benito Mussolini
If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honor. ~ Benito Mussolini.
I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea. ~ Benito Mussolini.
I want to make my own life a masterpiece. ~ Benito Mussolini.
The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organized in their respective associations, circulate within the State. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Profound Benito Mussolini Quotes
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building. ~ Benito Mussolini.
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. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state’s. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant. ~ Benito Mussolini.
State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all. ~ Benito Mussolini.
War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Liberty is a duty, not a right. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Powerful Benito Mussolini Quotes
It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep. ~ Benito Mussolini.
Religion is a species of mental disease. It has always had a pathological reaction on mankind. ~ Benito Mussolini.
The struggle against the religious absurdity is more than ever a necessity today. ~ Benito Mussolini.
The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. ~ Benito Mussolini.
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. ~ Benito Mussolini.
We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty. ~ Benito Mussolini.
At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying. ~ Benito Mussolini.
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