The Mass, Whether It Be A Crowd

Race? It Is A Feeling, Not A Reality. Ninety-five Per Cent, At Least. Nothing Will Ever Make Me Believe That Biologically Pure Races Can Be Shown To Exist Today.... National Pride Has No Need Of The Delirium Of Race.

There Is The Great, Silent, Continuous Struggle: The Struggle Between The State And The Individual; Between The State Which Demands And The Individual Who Attempts To Evade Such Demands. Because The Individual, Left To Himself, Unless He Be A Saint Or Hero, Always Refuses To Pay Taxes, Obey Laws, Or Go To War.

The Government Has Been Compelled To Levy Taxes Which Unavoidably Hit Large Sections Of The Population. The Italian People Are Disciplined, Silent And Calm, They Work And Know That There Is A Government Which Governs, And Know, Above All, That If This Government Hits Cruelly Certain Sections Of The Italian People, It Does Not So Out Of Caprice, But From The Supreme Necessity Of National Order.

It Is Not Impossible To Rule Italians, But It Would Be Useless.

War Is To Man What Motherhood Is To A Woman. From A Philosophical And Doctrinal Viewpoint, I Do Not Believe In Perpetual Peace.