For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes. Benito Mussolini More Quotes by Benito Mussolini More Quotes From Benito Mussolini Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands and an infinite scorn in our hearts. Benito Mussolini leader heart hands 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. Benito Mussolini birth-rate empires fate The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society. Benito Mussolini sole states needs Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. Benito Mussolini phantoms eugenics comedy Every anarchist is a baffled dictator. Benito Mussolini baffled anarchist dictator We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford. Benito Mussolini luxury deny class 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 intelligent animal lying State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management. Benito Mussolini political management may The truth is that men are tired of liberty. Benito Mussolini tired men reality War is to man what maternity is to a woman Benito Mussolini maternity men war The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them! Benito Mussolini two-worlds democracy struggle There is no revolution that can change the nature of man Benito Mussolini nature-of-man revolution men I want to make my own life a masterpiece. Benito Mussolini masterpiece my-own want The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after. Benito Mussolini life-and-love suicide struggle Fascism entirely agrees with Mr. Maynard Keynes, despite the latter's prominent position as a Liberal. In fact, Mr. Keynes' excellent little book, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud. Benito Mussolini politics political book It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless. Benito Mussolini useless government would-be There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral. Benito Mussolini immoral moral violence Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant. Benito Mussolini tyrants democracy kings As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field. Benito Mussolini doctrine political attitude All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. Benito Mussolini politics states