Benito Mussolini quotes

Born
29 July 1883 Predappio, Kingdom of Italy.

Died
28 April 1945.

Occupation
Politician, journalist.

Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party. He ruled Italy as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943; he constitutionally led the country until 1925, when he dropped the pretense of democracy and established a dictatorship.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
– Benito Mussolini

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

Fascism is not an article for export.
– Benito Mussolini

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
– Benito Mussolini

Inactivity is death.
– Benito Mussolini

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
– Benito Mussolini

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
– Benito Mussolini

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
– Benito Mussolini

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
– Benito Mussolini

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
– Benito Mussolini

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.
– Benito Mussolini

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
– Benito Mussolini

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
– Benito Mussolini

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
– Benito Mussolini

Fascism is a religious concept.
– Benito Mussolini

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
– Benito Mussolini

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

It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
– Benito Mussolini

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
– Benito Mussolini