The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

Fascism is a religious concept.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Inactivity is death.

Fascism is not an article for export.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while other write history. It matters little who wins.

Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade unionism giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.

Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism both in the political and economic sphere.

Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the states.

Fascism the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.

A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

I had no blood relatives till I made some.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.