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

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

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

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.

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

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

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

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

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

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

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

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

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

Fascism is a religious concept.

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

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

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.

Inactivity is death.

Fascism is not an article for export.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while other write history. It matters little who wins.

Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade unionism giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.

Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism both in the political and economic sphere.

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

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the states.

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.

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.