Quotes by Benito Mussolini

“Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English”

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it”

“The higher you aspire the more you grow”

“The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.”

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty

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.

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.Capitalism has borne the monstrous burden of the war and today still has the strength to shoulder the burdens of peace. ... It is not simply and solely an accumulation of wealth, it is an elaboration, a selection, a co-ordination of values which is the work of centuries. ... Many think, and I myself am one of them, that capitalism is scarcely at the beginning of its story.

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.

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power <-- This is a fake quote, it appears in none of the writings or recorded speeches of Mussolini.― Benito Mussolini

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!

You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

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.

Inactivity is death.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Its good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.