--- title: "15 Benito Mussolini Quotes by 14 authors" description: "Browse 15 Benito Mussolini quotes by 14 authors. Discover the best Benito Mussolini sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/anonymous-1_fascism_benito-mussolini-is-being-put-through-th_357353.jpg" --- > [Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/benito-mussolini-is-being-put-through-the-grinder-of-a-television/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/anonymous-1_fascism_benito-mussolini-is-being-put-through-th_357353.jpg) > [“power was bleeding from Benito Mussolini’s grasp like joy from a young widowed heart.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-t-sullivan/power-was-bleeding-from-benito-mussolini-s-grasp-like-joy-from-a/) [Mark T. Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-t-sullivan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/896/mark-t-sullivan-5366_mussolini_power-was-bleeding-from-benito-mussolini_2341455.jpg) > [ The British had an even stronger \[then America\] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/the-british-had-an-even-stronger-then-america-business-interest-in/) [Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cde/noam-chomsky-42_america_the-british-had-an-even-stronger-then-am_788868.jpg) > [ \[Donald\] Trump met with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, who has in the past compared Trump's rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-kornacki/donald-trump-met-with-mexican-president-enrique-pena-nieto-who-has-in/) [Steve Kornacki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-kornacki/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb3/steve-kornacki-3435_mets_donald-trump-met-with-mexican-president_1024539.jpg) > [“The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people." -Benito Mussolini (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benito-mussolini/the-history-of-saints-is-mainly-the-history-of-insane-people-benito/) [Benito Mussolini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benito-mussolini/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/065/benito-mussolini-3049_history_the-history-of-saints-is-mainly-the-hist_2643111.jpg) > [“You must, said Benito Mussolini, accept “a life in which the individual, through the denial of himself, through the sacrifice of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yaron-brook/you-must-said-benito-mussolini-accept-a-life-in-which-the-individual/) [Yaron Brook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yaron-brook/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/609/yaron-brook-25046_identity_you-must-said-benito-mussolini-accept-a_2052209.jpg) > [Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-mckay/benito-mussolini-created-the-word-fascism-he-defined-it-as-the/) [Adam McKay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-mckay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/adam-mckay-2140_accurate_benito-mussolini-created-the-word-fascis_918974.jpg) > [Perhaps because I am right wing, I am fascinated by Benito Mussolini. What fascinates me, and this is probably where Mussolini and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paolo-di-canio/perhaps-because-i-am-right-wing-i-am-fascinated-by-benito-mussolini/) [Paolo di Canio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paolo-di-canio/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9e/paolo-di-canio-4265_achieve_perhaps-because-i-am-right-wing-i-am-fas_612136.jpg) > [The thing that I hate the most is when people have prejudice - when they see me as the granddaughter of Benito…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alessandra-mussolini/the-thing-that-i-hate-the-most-is-when-people-have-prejudice-when/) [Alessandra Mussolini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alessandra-mussolini/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8e/alessandra-mussolini-31619_granddaughter_the-thing-that-i-hate-the-most-is-when-p_2682436.jpg) > [“In a 1931 speech, Butler recounted a story about Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, how he had run over a child with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/smedley-d-butler/in-a-1931-speech-butler-recounted-a-story-about-italian-prime/) [Smedley D. Butler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/smedley-d-butler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/305/smedley-d-butler-54538_communication_in-a-1931-speech-butler-recounted-a-stor_2939492.jpg) > [Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power-in-italy-before-the-vatican/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/christopher-hitchens-117_allies_benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power_928190.jpg) > [Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power-in-italy-before-the-vatican-2/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77a/christopher-hitchens-117_allies_benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power_2661843.jpg) > [“Their bodies were like corpses ready for embalming, from which all innards likely to rot had already been removed. Superfluous emotions like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ismail-kadar/their-bodies-were-like-corpses-ready-for-embalming-from-which-all/) [Ismail Kadare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ismail-kadar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/ismail-kadar-13224_corpses_their-bodies-were-like-corpses-ready-for_3210007.jpg) > [ “a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat \[sic\] and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-business-man-looks-at-communism/) [Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/jane-mayer-1031_armed-services_a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-busine_1593079.png) > [“On March 23, 1919, one of the most famous socialists in Italy founded a new party, the Fasci di Combattimento, a term…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinesh-d-souza/on-march-23-1919-one-of-the-most-famous-socialists-in-italy-founded-a/) [Dinesh D'Souza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinesh-d-souza/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97a/dinesh-d-souza-2242_great-leader_on-march-23-1919-one-of-the-most-famous_1958573.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/benito-mussolini/#itemlist", "name": "Benito Mussolini Quotes", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/benito-mussolini-is-being-put-through-the-grinder-of-a-television/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/anonymous-1_fascism_benito-mussolini-is-being-put-through-th_357353.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/anonymous-1_fascism_benito-mussolini-is-being-put-through-th_357353.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/anonymous-1_fascism_benito-mussolini-is-being-put-through-th_357353.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian…” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“power was bleeding from Benito Mussolini’s grasp like joy from a young widowed heart.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mark T. 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Across southern Europe, the church was a reliable ally in the instatement of fascist regimes. . . .", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Hitchens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power-in-italy-before-the-vatican-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77a/christopher-hitchens-117_allies_benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power_2661843.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77a/christopher-hitchens-117_allies_benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power_2661843.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77a/christopher-hitchens-117_allies_benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power_2661843.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him…” — Christopher Hitchens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Their bodies were like corpses ready for embalming, from which all innards likely to rot had already been removed. Superfluous emotions like curiosity, fear and lust for gossip or excitement had been shed along with the useless flesh and excess fat. Javer once said that Granny Shano could as easily have grabbed the ear of Benito Mussolini himself as the Italian officer’s.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ismail Kadare" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ismail-kadar/their-bodies-were-like-corpses-ready-for-embalming-from-which-all/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/ismail-kadar-13224_corpses_their-bodies-were-like-corpses-ready-for_3210007.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/ismail-kadar-13224_corpses_their-bodies-were-like-corpses-ready-for_3210007.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/ismail-kadar-13224_corpses_their-bodies-were-like-corpses-ready-for_3210007.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Their bodies were like corpses ready for embalming, from which all innards likely to rot had already been…” — Ismail Kadare", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat [sic] and Republican Parties.” Protestant churches, public schools, universities, labor unions, the armed services, the State Department, the World Bank, the United Nations, and modern art, in his view, were all Communist tools. He wrote admiringly of Benito Mussolini’s suppression of Communists in Italy and disparagingly of the American civil rights movement. The Birchers agitated to impeach Chief Justice Earl Warren after the Supreme Court voted to desegregate the public schools in the case Brown v. Board of Education, which had originated in Topeka, in the Kochs’ home state of Kansas. “The colored man looms large in the Communist plan to take over America,” Fred Koch claimed in his pamphlet. Welfare in his view was a secret plot to attract rural blacks to cities, where he predicted that they would foment “a vicious race war.” In a 1963 speech, Koch claimed that Communists would “infiltrate the highest offices of government in the U.S. until the President is a Communist, unknown to the rest of us.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jane Mayer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-business-man-looks-at-communism/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/jane-mayer-1031_armed-services_a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-busine_1593079.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/jane-mayer-1031_armed-services_a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-busine_1593079.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/jane-mayer-1031_armed-services_a-1960-self-published-broadside-a-busine_1593079.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have…” — Jane Mayer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“On March 23, 1919, one of the most famous socialists in Italy founded a new party, the Fasci di Combattimento, a term that means “fascist combat squad.” This was the first official fascist party and thus its founding represents the true birth of fascism. By the same token, this man was the first fascist. The term “fascism” can be traced back to 1914, when he founded the Fasci Rivoluzionari d’Azione Internazionalista, a political movement whose members called themselves fascisti or fascists. In 1914, this founding father of fascism was, together with Vladimir Lenin of Russia, Rosa Luxemburg of Germany, and Antonio Gramsci of Italy, one of the best known Marxists in the world. His fellow Marxists and socialists recognized him as a great leader of socialism. His decision to become a fascist was controversial, yet he received congratulations from Lenin who continued to regard him as a faithful revolutionary socialist. And this is how he saw himself. That same year, because of his support for Italian involvement in World War I, he would be expelled from the Italian Socialist Party for “heresy,” but this does not mean he ceased to be a socialist. It was common practice for socialist parties to expel dissenting fellow socialists for breaking on some fine point with the party line. This party reject insisted that he had been kicked out for making “a revision of socialism from the revolutionary point of view.”2 For the rest of his life—right until his lifeless body was displayed in a town square in Milan—he upheld the central tenets of socialism which he saw as best reflected in fascism. Who, then, was this man? He was the future leader of fascist Italy, the one whom Italians called Il Duce, Benito Mussolini.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dinesh D'Souza" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinesh-d-souza/on-march-23-1919-one-of-the-most-famous-socialists-in-italy-founded-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97a/dinesh-d-souza-2242_great-leader_on-march-23-1919-one-of-the-most-famous_1958573.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97a/dinesh-d-souza-2242_great-leader_on-march-23-1919-one-of-the-most-famous_1958573.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97a/dinesh-d-souza-2242_great-leader_on-march-23-1919-one-of-the-most-famous_1958573.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“On March 23, 1919, one of the most famous socialists in Italy founded a new party, the Fasci di…” — Dinesh D'Souza", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/benito-mussolini/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/benito-mussolini/", "name": "Benito Mussolini Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/benito-mussolini/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/anonymous-1_fascism_benito-mussolini-is-being-put-through-th_357353.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 15 Benito Mussolini quotes by 14 authors. 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