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| Benito Mussolini
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. Blood alone moves the wheels of history. Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical, and destructive than one, if he be a tyrant. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State. Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. Fascism is a religious concept.Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power. Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to fifty thousand votes. I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity.I shall make my own life a masterpiece.If I advance, follow me; if I retreat, kill me; if I die, avenge me. Inactivity is death.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. It is necessary to be very intelligent in the work of repression. all oppositon journals have been supressed and all the anti-fascist leaders dissolved. It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of a state? Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.Liberty is a duty, not a right. Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered.The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. 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.The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable. The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building. The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.The masses have little time to think. and how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe. The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime. The truth is that men are tired of liberty. There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is
a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.There is no revolution that can change the nature of man.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. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy
and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the
courage to face it.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.War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood. |
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