Benito Mussolini — "The Fascist State is an embodied will to power."
The Fascist State is an embodied will to power.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Benito Mussolini
"The greatest joy of man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all that they possess, to ride their horses, and to make sweet music with their wives and daughters."
"The dogma of the divine creation is recognized as absurd."
"The press of the liberal state is always the negation of the state."
"I have been a racist since 1921. I don't know how they can think I'm imitating Hitler."
"The Fascist State, as a spiritual entity, interprets, develops and potentiates the entire life of a people."
About Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
Italian fascist who founded the National Fascist Party in 1919 and ruled Italy 1922-1943, before being executed by partisans in April 1945. Closely associated with Adolf Hitler (Axis ally and ideological successor) and Francisco Franco (Spanish authoritarian and ideological cousin). For an intellectual contrast, see Antonio Gramsci, Italian Marxist intellectual and Communist Party founder — Gramsci's Prison Notebooks — written 1929-1935 inside Mussolini's prisons — became the foundational text of cultural-hegemony theory. The cleanest 'fascist regime vs intellectual it imprisoned' pairing in 20th-century history; Gramsci developed his analysis of how fascism wins through cultural consent while dying in Mussolini's custody.