Frases de Benito Mussolini

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“El Imperialismo es la base de la vida de todo pueblo que tiende a extenderse económica y espiritualmente.”

“Los ingleses, ese pueblo que piensa con el culo.”

“Un pueblo tiene que ser pobre para poder ser orgulloso.”

“¿Cual raza? ¿Acaso existe la raza alemana? ¿existió alguna vez? ¿existirá acaso? ¿Realidad, mito o mentira de los teóricos? Bueno, vamos a responder, la raza alemana no existe. Varios movimientos. Curiosidad. Estupor. Repetimos. No existe. Nosotros no lo hemos dicho. Los científicos lo dicen. Hitler lo dice.”

“Siendo anti-individualista, la concepción fascista se pronuncia por el Estado; y se pronuncia por el individuo en cuanto éste coincide con el Estado, que es conciencia y voluntad del hombre en su existencia histórica. El liberalismo negaba al Estado en interés del individuo particular; el fascismo reconfirma al Estado como verdadera realidad del individuo. Se pronuncia por la única realidad que puede ser una cosa seria, a saber, la libertad del Estado y del individuo en el Estado. Ello, en razón de que, para el fascista, todo reside en el Estado, y nada que sea humano o espiritual existe fuera del Estado.”

“Roma, antigua señora del mundo, en nombre de nuestros muertos gloriosos que dieron su vida para hacer posible este día maravilloso, te saludamos.”

“Me propongo detener del todo los atentados periódicos contra mi vida. No digo esto por mí, porque verdaderamente me gusta vivir en peligro, sino por el pueblo italiano.”

“Sería grandemente ingenioso si pidiese el ser dejado en paz después de muerto. Alrededor de las tumbas de los jefes de aquellas grandes transformaciones, que se llaman revoluciones, no se puede haber paz; mas todo aquello que fue hecho no podrá ser cancelado. Mientras el espíritu mio, ahora liberado de la materia, vivirá, después de la pequeña vida terrenal, la vida inmortal e universal de Dios. Solo que tengo un deseo, aquel de ser enterrado junto a mí en el cementerio de San Cassiano.”

“Libro e moschetto, Fascista Perfetto!”

“Soy un defensor convencido del gobierno local, y lo soy, precisamente, porque soy un socialista revolucionario y, por tanto, enemigo del Estado. EL municipio es el último bastión desde el cual puede oponerse el ciudadano a la firme y creciente invasión del Estado.”

“Nosotros nos diferenciamos inconciliablemente de todas las sectas socialistas, pues rechazamos todo internacionalismo, sea cual fuere, toda intervención del Estado en asuntos económicos. […] Decir que exista también en Italia un peligro bolchevique significa tomar por realidad algunos absurdos temores. El bolchevismo está derrotado.”

“Si el siglo XIX fue un siglo de individualismo, se espera que este, el siglo XX, será el siglo del colectivismo y así el siglo del Estado…”

“Si llego al poder, volveré la ametralladora contra los fascistas si no se someten a la cordura.”

“¡Dispárame en el pecho!.”

“¡Raza! Es un sentimiento, no una realidad; noventa y cinco por ciento, al menos, es un sentimiento. Nada podrá hacerme creer que la razas biologicamente puras existan actualmente. Irónicamente, ninguno de los que ha proclamado la "nobleza" de la raza Teutonica era un Teuton. Gobineau era Frances, Chamberlain, un Ingles; Woltmann, un Judio; Lapouge, otro Frances.”

“El fascismo rechaza frontalmente las doctrinas del liberalismo, tanto en el campo político como económico”

“Hay dos cosas con las que uno no puede luchar; contra la Iglesia y las modas de las mujeres.”

“Egar es el hombre gris por antonomasia.”

“Envidio a Hitler. Él no tiene que arrastrar vagones vacíos.”

“Decidle al Führer que tenga paciencia. Yo hace 16 años que me aguanto”

“El laissez faire está caducado”

“No estamos hablando de alzar un nuevo estandarte político, sino más bien de librar la vieja bandera socialista de aquellos que se han envuelto en sus pliegues.”

“El proletariado no está dispuesto a combatir en una guerra de agresión y conquisa tras la cual él simplemente seguirá igual de pobre y explotado que antes.”

“La masa es descartable, hombres grises.”

“Todo socialista honesto debe desaprobar la aventura libia. Sólo significa derramamiento de sangre inútil y estúpido.”

“Los prejuicios son mallas de hierro o de oropel. No tenemos el prejuicio republicano, ni el monárquico, no tenemos el prejuicio católico, socialista o antisocialista. Somos cuestionadores, activistas, realizadores". (Entrevista al Giornale d’Italia después de la fundación del Fascio de Combate de Milán).”

“No presumo de que Adolf Hitler haya hecho una revolución según el modelo de la mía. Los alemanes acabarán por estropear nuestra idea.”

“Ahora ninguna fuerza podrá separarnos.”

“Desde hace demasiado tiempo en Italia una silla se denomina un palacio. Pero esto no impide que la silla siga siendo silla. Así, nuestras divisiones, escasas y desarmadas, no tienen de divisiones más que el nombre.”

“Los prejuicios son mallas de hierro o de oropel. No tenemos el prejuicio republicano, ni el monárquico, no tenemos el prejuicio católico, socialista o antisocialista. Somos cuestionadores, activistas, realizadores.”

“The Doctrine of Fascism, June 1932. Quoted in Charles Floyd Delzell, Mediterranean Fascism, 1919-45 Springer, 1971”

“My labor had not been easy nor light; our Masonry had spun a most intricate net of anti-religious activity; it dominated the currents of thought; it exercised its influence over publishing houses, over teaching, over the administration of justice and even over certain dominant sections of the armed forces. To give an idea of how far things had gone, this significant example is sufficient. When, in parliament, I delivered my first speech of November 16, 1922, after the Fascist revolution, I concluded by invoking the assistance of God in my difficult task. Well, this sentence of mine seemed to be out of place! In the Italian parliament, a field of action for Italian Masonry, the name of God had been banned for a long time. Not even the Popular party — the so-called Catholic party — had ever thought of speaking of God. In Italy, a political man did not even turn his thoughts to the Divinity. And, even if he had ever thought of doing so, political opportunism and cowardice would have deterred him, particularly in a legislative assembly. It remained for me to make this bold innovation! And in an intense period of revolution! What is the truth! It is that a faith openly professed is a sign of strength. I have seen the religious spirit bloom again; churches once more are crowded, the ministers of God are themselves invested with new respect. Fascism has done and is doing its duty.”

“The citizen in the Fascist State is no longer a selfish individual who has the anti-social right of rebelling against any law of the Collectivity.”

“We assert—and on the basis of the most recent socialist literature that you cannot deny—that the real history of capitalism is only now beginning, because capitalism is not just a system of oppression; it also represents a choice of value,…”

“[Provincial Fascism is] “no longer liberation, but tyranny; no longer protector of the nation, but defense of private interests and of the dullest, deafest, most miserable cast that exists in Italy."”

“The root of our psychological weakness was this: We socialists have never examined the problems of nations. The International was never concerned with it. The International is dead, paralyzed by events. Ten million proletarians are today on the battlefield.”

“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.”

“It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… [Marx] had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.”

“To-day we can affirm that the capitalistic method of production is out of date. So is the doctrine of laissez-faire, the theoretical basis of capitalism… To-day we are taking a new and decisive step in the path of revolution. A revolution, in order to be great, must be a social revolution.”

“Shoot me in the chest.”

“Believe, obey, fight.”

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

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

“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.”

“These men are not made of the same stuff as the Francis Drakes and the other magnificent adventurers who created the empire. These, after all, are the tired sons of a long line of rich men, and they will lose their empire.”

“A revolutionist is born, not made.”

“The history of many saints, beatified by the church, is repugnant. It shows nothing more than a profound aberration of the human spirit in search of ultra-terrestrial chimeras.”

“If today the Middle Ages are retiring into the thick shadows of convents, it is due to triumphant skepticism; and if the epidemic disease of religion no longer appears with the terrible intensity of former times, it is due to the diminution of the political power of the Church.”

“Religion is a psychic disease of the brain.”

“Religious morality shows the original stigmata of authoritarianism precisely because it pretends to be the revelation of divine authority.”

“The Bible and morals called Christian are two cadavers.”

“How can the idea of a creator be reconciled with the existence of dwarfed and atrophied organs, with anomalies and monstrosities, with the existence of pain, perpetual and universal, with the struggle and the inequalities among human beings?”

“With each new discovery of chemistry, physics, biology, the anthropological sciences, of the practical application of sound principles, dogma collapses. It is a part of that old edifice of religion which crumbles and falls in ruins.”

“The faculty by which man is differentiated from the lower animals is his reasoning power. But the devout believer renounces reason, refuses to explain the things which surround him, the innumerable natural phenomena, because his religious faith is enough for him. The brain loses the habit of thinking; and this religious sottishness hurls mankind back into animalism.”

“When we claim that "God does not exist," we mean to deny by this declaration the personal God of theology, the God worshiped in various ways and divers modes by believers the world over, that God who from nothing created the universe, from chaos matter, that God of absurd attributes who is an affront to human reason.”

“The struggle against the religious absurdity is more than ever a necessity today.”

“No one knows better than I with forty years' political experience that policy--particularly a revolutionary policy--has its tactical requirements. I recognised the Soviets in 1924. In 1934, I signed with them a treaty of commerce and friendship. I, therefore, understood that, especially as Ribbentrop's forecast about the non-intervention of Britain and France has not come off, you are obliged to avoid the second front [with Russia]. You have had to pay for this in that Russia has, without striking a blow, been the great profiteer of the war in Poland and the Baltic. But I, who was born a revolutionary and have not modified my revolutionary mentality, tell you that you cannot permanently sacrifice the principles of your revolution to the tactical requirements of a given moment... I have also the definite duty to add that a further step in the relations with Moscow would have catastrophic repercussions in Italy, where the unanimity of anti-Bolshevik feeling is absolute, granite-hard, and unbreakable. Permit me to think that this will not happen. The solution of your Lebensraum is in Russia, and nowhere else... The day when we shall have demolished Bolshevism we shall have kept faith with both our revolutions. Then it will be the turn of the great democracies, who will not be able to survive the cancer which gnaws them...”

“World Jewry has been, for sixteen years, despite our policy, an irreconcilable enemy of Fascism. In Italy our policy has led, in the Semitic elements, to what can today be called a true rush to board the ship.”