Benito Mussolini Quotations - World of Biography



		“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”
		“Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.”
		“History takes one by the throat and forces a decision.”
		“Neutrals of every continent who are spectators at the bloody clashes between the armed masses must have sufficient shame to keep quiet and not express libelous provocative opinions.”

“Those who may be tempted to imagine something different forget that the alliance between Italy and Germany is not only between two States or two armies or two diplomacies but between two peoples and two revolutions and destined to give its imprint upon the century.”

“When it is desired to be called a dictator in the pure classical meaning of the word, Sulla is cited. Sulla appears to us a modest amateur compared with Delano Roosevelt.”

“The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face, it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority… a century of Fascism.”

“For if a doctrine must be a living thing, this is proved by the fact that Fascism has created a living faith; and that this faith is very powerful in the minds of men is demonstrated by those who have suffered and died for it.”

“…The 19th century was the century of Socialism, of liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of socialism, Liberalism and Democracy. ”

“In politics I never have gained a penny. I detest those who live like parasites sucking away at the edges of social struggles. I hate men who grow rich in politics.”

“I do not believe in the supposed influence of books…For myself, I have used only one big book. For myself I have only one great teacher. The book is life lived. The teacher is day-by-day experience.”

“My Fascist friends live always in my thought. I believe the younger ones have special place there…a young orchard has many years of productiveness for the future.”

“The sanctity of an ism is not in the ism, it has no sanctity beyond its power to do, to work, to succeed in practice. It may have succeeded yesterday and fail tomorrow. Failed yesterday and succeed tomorrow. The machine first of all must run!”

“If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.”

“I have never flattered the crowd nor wheedled anyone; I spoke always of the costs of victories – sacrifice and sweat and blood.”