Benito Mussolini Quotes

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

~ 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

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.

~ 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

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

~ Benito Mussolini

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

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

~ Benito Mussolini

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

~ Benito Mussolini

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.

~ Benito Mussolini

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

~ Benito Mussolini

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

~ 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