Top 15 Benito Mussolini Quotes

For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.

I bequeath the republic to the republicans and not to the monarchists, and the work of social reform to the socialist and not to the middle class.

I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.

Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief — either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!

Believe, obey, fight.

The Socialists ask what is our program? Our program is to smash the heads of the Socialists.

Men do not move mountains; it is only necessary to create the illusion that mountains move.

With the unleashing of a mighty clash of peoples, the bourgeoisie is playing its last card and calls forth on the world scene that which Karl Marx called the sixth great power: the socialist revolution.

The outbreak of a socialist revolution in one country will cause the others to imitate it or so to strengthen the proletariat as to prevent its national bourgeoisie from attempting any armed intervention.

The socialist revolution was a pure and simple question of ‘force.’… Between the [bourgeoisie and the proletariat] no accord is possible. One must disappear. The weaker will be ‘eliminated.’ The class struggle is therefore a question of ‘force.’

In the whole negative part, we are alike. We and the Russians are against liberals, against democrats, against parliament.

[Marx was] the magnificent philosopher of working class violence.

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

You want to know what fascism is like? It is like your New Deal!