Benito Mussolini

"Cowards die many times before their deaths."

"The mind must be a cold machine."

"Man is not truly free if he cannot choose who to kill."

"I am, in essence, a realist."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"The nation is not ethnic, but spiritual in character."

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."

"Peace is absurd."

"I would like to teach you about power in its true form."

"Contempt is the only appropriate reaction to most human activity."

"The State is absolute, individuals and groups are relative."

"I march forward."

"Genius does not forgive debts."

"The more complicated and powerful a civilization becomes, the more conformity is required."

"War alone brings everything to its highest tension and stamps with nobility nations that dare to wage it."

"Inactivity is death."

"I have no time for ideologies."

"The individual is precious only insofar as he is part of the State."

"I love the sound of breaking glass."

"Civilization requires slaves."

"Everything I say or do is an act of will."

"The masses have never thirsted after truth; they demand illusions."

"What makes a man virile is the understanding of true power."

"I demand nothing of myself but the impossible."

"The truth is beautiful and terrible."

"The welfare of the people must always be my first consideration."

"Great epochs are brought about by men of great passion."

"Diversity is an enemy to unity."

"I am interested in nothing by power."

"The individual is obsolete in the face of the State."