Mussolini Quotes

I'm Hitler and my dad is Mussolini!

— Mel Gibson

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

— Gianfranco Fini

Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

— Rick Riordan

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

— Richard M. Nixon

Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile.

— Silvio Berlusconi

Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.

— Silvio Berlusconi

“Mussolini and his lover were brought back to Milan and hung upside-down like fowls.”

— Catherine McNamara

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

— Georges Simenon

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

— Matteo Salvini

The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy,

— Guido Calabresi

The British had an even stronger [then America] business interest in Nazi Germany. And Benito Mussolini was greatly admired.

— Noam Chomsky

Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.

— Otto Skorzeny

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage…

— A. J. P. Taylor

“In a 1931 speech, Butler recounted a story about Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, how he had run over a child with…

— Smedley D. Butler

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish…

— Winston Churchill

Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and…

— Galeazzo Ciano

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working,…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

When Mussolini decided on war he did not take my advice or that of any other Army chief. In August 1939 the…

— Pietro Badoglio

“History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second…

— Hisham Matar

“He steps to the lectern and does his Mussolini routine, which he’s perfected over the past months. It’s a nodding wave, a…

— Matt Taibbi

I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving…

— Ugo Cavallero

Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects. I only say their possibilities of…

— Benito Mussolini

“In an attempt to imitate the prestigious French Academy, Mussolini’s fascist government created The Royal Academy of Italy in 1926 whose members…

— Anonymous

“In the upper echelons of the Church, the authoritarian and anti-liberal elements within fascism resonated with those – and they included Pius…

— Christopher Duggan

“Mussolini had learnt more from Lenin and the Bolsheviks than he would have cared to admit, notably the lesson that parliamentary majorities…

— Robert Gerwarth

Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with…

— Silvio Berlusconi

“Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion…

— Daniel S. Fletcher

“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with…

— Hannah Arendt

Even if the country is run by a Mussolini, free speech will find its way.

— Kamal Haasan

Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail…

— Nat Hentoff

“power was bleeding from Benito Mussolini’s grasp like joy from a young widowed heart.”

— Mark T. Sullivan

As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.

— Lin Yutang

Benito Mussolini is being put through the grinder of a television biography and the result resembles Italian sausage-of the spicy variety.

— Anonymous

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

— Joseph Goebbels

The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.

— Galeazzo Ciano

“Joe Lelyveld told me just now that Gandhi and Mussolini Actually met. What an extraordinary thought.”

— Frederick Seidel

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

— David Low

Dad was a distant figure, autonomous, a cross between the Pope and Mussolini. He was very Italian, as were all of my…

— Chris Rea