Quotes by Benito Mussolini

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
– Benito Mussolini
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
– 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
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
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
– Benito Mussolini
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
– Benito Mussolini
The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
– Benito Mussolini
The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
– Benito Mussolini
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
– 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
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
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
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
– Benito Mussolini
It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
– Benito Mussolini
Inactivity is death.
– Benito Mussolini
Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
– Benito Mussolini