Duce Duce Quotes & Sayings

One's own form of sensibility is not not necessarily another's. Common sense is not so common. — Gillian Duce

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day. — Epicurus

I don't believe it mattered to Timothy McVeigh who was president or who his congressional representative was when he blew up the Murrah Building in 1995. — Henry Rollins

I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes. — Asne Seierstad

Mussolini's mistress, a leading Fascist intellectual and theorist of the movement, was openly Jewish. Perhaps less well known is that the Israeli Navy was born out of a 1930s Fascist training program, and the Duce even endowed a Fascist chair at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. — Tom Reiss

It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood. — Arthur Conan Doyle

How can the heart and mind work together? The mind wants logic and to travel in straight lines, while the heart wants to be free and travel upward in spirals to dizzying heights. — Gillian Duce

Italy being a traitor?" His voice grated. "The Duce - he was a clown; we all know that. — Philip K. Dick

Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free
nor error servile
but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this. — Michel Foucault

A smile is a light within you being turned on, it can illuminate the path for you and others. — Gillian Duce

Will that be all?" I asked the pimply faced teen who ogled my exposed legs as if in heat. My pen tapped impatiently on the notepad while I waited for him to look up.
Slowly his dull grey eyes roved over my body and a limp smile drew up his thin, crusted lips making him look more weasel than human.
"Yep. That'd be it," his cheerful, adolescent voice cracked.
"Great," I mumbled, walking back behind the counter. — Brandi Salazar

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle. — Sean O'Casey

It's like I'm trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle, and everyone is hiding the pieces from me. — Sarah Jio

When Mussolini decided on war he did not take my advice or that of any other Army chief. In August 1939 the Duce had not been so sure about the invincibility of the Germans, and he told us that he had sought to persuade Hitler not to act. — Pietro Badoglio

All dreams are realities waiting for us to believe in them. — Gillian Duce

To live with regret is to deny one's life of living. — Gillian Duce

No one said parenting was easy,but NO good parent has any right to give up.It is one labyrinth you can never quit because it seems too hard. — Gillian Duce

The Duce told me that he foresaw the possibility of a conflict between Germany and Russia. He said that we could not stay out of this because it involved the struggle against communism. It was, therefore, necessary to make arrangements for the bringing together between Ljubljana and Zagreb of a motorized division, of an armored division, and of the grenadier division. — Ugo Cavallero

The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians. — Rodolfo Graziani

It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards. — Gillian Duce

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look. — Ronald Reagan

We don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body. Don't blame others for the shape of your experience. — Gillian Duce

The course you take determines your greatness or failure — Ikechukwu Joseph

There is in, us a lack of the synthetic faculty which distinguishes things that are important from those that are not. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

I was just past forty, that age when you wake up in the morning and feel something thickening inside and only people too old to matter refer to you as a young man anymore. (The Last Days of Il Duce) — Dominic Stansberry

I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce. — Ugo Cavallero

Life is only as colorful as the paintbox you choose to paint it with. — Gillian Duce

Yesterday is done. Today has just begun. I am not going let anyone's negative issues do anything to me other than inspire me to do better. — Gillian Duce

most of its existence, Mussolini's regime had not been anti-Semitic, and early on, the Duce had explicitly criticized Hitler's racism - probably in part because Nazism did not include modern Italians in its pantheon of Aryan supermen. — Tom Reiss

I do not understand when a person is more concerned with the appearance of their house than the state of their home. — Gillian Duce

Each moment is just that... a moment. Whether good or bad it will pass to the next. Forward to the next and create a wonderful life. — Gillian Duce

What point was there in living if you didn't at least try to be as cool as your heroes?
p. 6, Double Duce — Aaron Cometbus

when the public allows itself to be fooled by a smooth-talking wannabe dictator, "what you get in the end," Alice insisted, "is your Fuehrer, your Duce, your Rex."51 — Marc Peyser