Benito Mussolini — "The mass of men are brutish, ignorant, and lazy. They must be driven."
The mass of men are brutish, ignorant, and lazy. They must be driven.
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"The nation is not a sum of individuals, but an organism."
"It can be said that the policeman preceded the professor in history [laughter], because, if there are not hands armed with handcuffs, laws become dead letters."
"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 State, in fact, as a true reality of the individual, is the highest form of ethical existence."
"The crowd is like a woman. It doesn't want to be told, but to be loved."
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.