Benito Mussolini — "The plow marks the furrow, but the sword defends it."
The plow marks the furrow, but the sword defends it.
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 function of a citizen in a Fascist State is to obey."
"My speech, therefore, will be necessary, irritating and amusing."
"The nation is not a sum of individuals, but an organism."
"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 Fascist regime has not sought to create a new type of man, but to inspire in the Italian people a new spirit."
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.
Verification
Unverifiable
Found in 1 providers: grok
1 source checked