For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes. Benito Mussolini More Quotes by Benito Mussolini More Quotes From Benito Mussolini Fascism is not an article for export. Benito Mussolini articles fascism The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. Benito Mussolini eagles technology fall Fortunately the Italian people is not habituated to eating several times a day. Benito Mussolini italian eating people In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens. Benito Mussolini safety citizens night Italy, wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary. Benito Mussolini calm want giving Yes, madam, I am finished. My star has fallen. I work and I try, yet know that all is but a farce.... I await the end of the tragedy and – strangely detached from everything – I do not feel any more an actor. I feel I am the last of spectators. Benito Mussolini But which race? Does there exist a German race? Has it ever existed? Will it ever exist? Reality, myth, or hoax of the theorists? Ah well, we respond, a Germanic race does not exist. Various movements. Curiosity. Stupor. We repeat. Does not exist. We don't say so. Scientists say so. Hitler says so. Benito Mussolini Race! It is a feeling, not a reality: ninety-five percent, at least, is a feeling. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today. Amusingly enough, not one of those who have proclaimed the "nobility" of the Teutonic race was himself a Teuton. Gobineau was a Frenchman, Chamberlain, an Englishman; Woltmann, a Jew; Lapouge, another Frenchman. Benito Mussolini Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power. 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 woman man war peace Inactivity is death. Benito Mussolini inactivity death