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

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Benito Mussolini

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Benito Mussolini

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

Fascism is a religious concept.
Benito Mussolini

Fascism is not an article for export.
Benito Mussolini

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
Benito Mussolini

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
Benito Mussolini

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.
Benito Mussolini

Inactivity is death.
Benito Mussolini


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.
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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