“Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.” IfsGivingMayMatterCareAcceptingEconomicMinutesReturnProgramEconomicsAccountsClaimsMeetingsSeriesDoctrineItalianFascismAssemblyCrumblingGuildsPointers Author:Benito Mussolini
“It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation: greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.” IfsWorldWritingMayArtStillsUseShowsEyeCareTurnsPassionGreaterMankindSafeAccountsMirrorsDiscriminationImitationWickednessRepresenting Book:Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler Source: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler
“How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.” PeopleIfsCareSpiritNationsResponsibilityDemocracyDiseaseAccountsAssumingIllnessHealth CareSicknessVolume Author:Alice Tisdale Hobart