Benito Mussolini Quotes Proverbs, and Aphorisms
- July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945
- Italian
- Politician, Journalist, Dictator, Prime Minister of Italy, Founder of Fascism
Benito Mussolini was an Italian political leader who founded Fascism and ruled Italy as Prime Minister and later dictator from 1922 to 1943. Known as “Il Duce”, he established a totalitarian regime that emphasized nationalism, militarism, and centralized authority, suppressing dissent and controlling the press. Mussolini aimed to restore the glory of the Roman Empire through aggressive expansion, aligning Italy with Nazi Germany during World War II. His leadership led to widespread oppression, military failures, and ultimately Italy’s occupation and civil war. Captured and executed by Italian partisans in 1945, Mussolini remains a symbol of authoritarianism, propaganda-driven rule, and the destructive power of unchecked political ambition.
- “Fascism is a religious concept.”
- “Inactivity is death.”
- “Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.”
- “Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.”
- “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.”
- “The truth is that men are tired of liberty.”
- “War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.”
- “The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.”
- “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.”
- “The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.”
- “Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.”
- “The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.”
- “The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.”
- “The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.”
- “We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.”
- “It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.”
- “The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.”
- “Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.”
- “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
- “Fascism is not an article for export.”
- “The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.”
- “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 Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.”
- “It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.”
- “Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.”