Benito Mussolini

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

I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler.

The press of Italy is free, freer than the press of any other country, so long as it supports the regime.

Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.

Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.... National pride has no need of the delirium of race.

Honorable Fascist Deputies, I am very sorry and profoundly humiliated to announce to you that my speech today will not be as short as mine usually are...

My speech, therefore, will be necessary, irritating and amusing.

It can be said that the policeman preceded the professor in history [laughter], because, if there are not hands armed with handcuffs, laws become dead letters.

The dogma of the divine creation is recognized as absurd.

Religion is a species of mental disease. It has always had a pathological reaction on mankind.

The mass of men are brutish, ignorant, and lazy. They must be driven.

Democracy is a regime without a king, but with very many kings, perhaps more exclusive, tyrannical and violent than one king even if a tyrant.

Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today.

I have not created Fascism, I have extracted it from the unconscious of the Italian people.

We are hungry for land, and we shall take it.

It is not the program that governs the party but the party that governs the program.

The crowd is like a woman. It doesn't want to be told, but to be loved.

We were not born to a life of ease but to struggle.

Believe, Obey, Fight.

Order, discipline, hierarchy.