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.

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.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.