Benito Mussolini

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    Name Benito Mussolini
    (Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini)
    Height 5' 6½"  (169 cm)
    Build Average
    Hair Color Bald
    Date of Birth July 291883
    Birthplace Predappio
    Star Sign Leo
    Died April 281945 (Aged 62)
    Location of Death Giulino di Mezzegra, Lake Como, Italy
    Cause of Death execution by gunshot
    Nationality Italian
    Ethnicity White
    Occupation Criminal
    Celebrity Index Be
    Claim to Fame Il Duce

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  • Fascism is a religious concept
    (thinkexist.com)
  • Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power
    (thinkexist.com)
  • We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
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  • It`s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • Fascism is not an article for export.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • 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.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • Fascism is a religious concept.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
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  • 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.
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  • The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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  • The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
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  • Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • 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.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.
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  • It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
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  • Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • 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.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
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  • The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
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  • War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • 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.
    (brainyquote.com)
  • Inactivity is death.
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  • Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
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  • The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
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  • The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
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  • "People are like women, they go with the winning man."
  • "Keep your heart a desert."
  • "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the marriage of government and corporate power."
    Trivia
  • Is portrayed by George C. Scott in "Mussolini: The Untold Story" (1985) (mini), Rod Steiger in Mussolini: Ultimo atto (1974), Antonio Banderas in "Giovane Mussolini, Il" (1993) (mini), Enzo G. Castellari in "The Winds of War" (1983) (mini) and Bob Hoskins in Mussolini and I (1985) (TV).
    (imdb.com)
  • One of his sons was Romano Mussolini, who became a jazz pianist, despite jazz music being outlawed as "decadent" during his father`s regime.
  • In April 1945, just before the Allied armies reached Milan, Mussolini, along with his mistress Clara Petacci, was caught by Italian partisans as he tried to take refuge in Switzerland. Both were summarily executed. Later, their bodies were hung, upside down, in a gas station at Loreto Square in Milan.
  • His son, Romano, married Sophia Loren`s sister, Anna Maria Scicolone.
  • Coined the term "fascism" from the fasci carried by magistrates in ancient Rome. The fasci were bundles of branches which, when bound together, were stronger than when they were apart -- reflecting the intellectual debt that fascism owed to socialism. Mussolini broke with the Socialists over the issue of Italy`s entry into World War I.
  • Qualified as an elementary schoolmaster. His mother, Rosa, was a school teacher. (1901)
  • Became the youngest Premier in the history of Italy (31 October 1922). His Fascist state would provide a model for Adolf Hitler`s later economic and political policies.
  • Fascist dictator of Italy, 1922-1943.
  • Had his son-in-law, Italian diplomat Galeazzo Ciano, executed.
  • Imperfectly fluent in English, French, and German, and spoke these languages with a very heavy accent.
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