Benito Mussolini

The goal of Fascism is to create a new man and a new civilization.

Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman.

The press of the liberal state is always the negation of the state.

I am the most terrible animal that’s ever existed.

The mass has no brains.

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical, and destructive than one, even if he is a tyrant.

The century of Fascism will be the century of Italian power.

The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right.

We deny all the internationalist myths.

Nothing great has ever happened in the world without a great idea, but the idea must be sustained by a great force.

The people is a body, and the State is the spirit of the people.

Fascism is not a church, it is a way of life.

The problem of peace is not a problem of law, but a problem of force.

Only blood can wash out the shame of defeat.

The nation is not only the present, but also the past and above all the future.

Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

The Fascist regime has not sought to create a new type of man, but to inspire in the Italian people a new spirit.