Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.
Interpretation
Fascism prioritizes the state's needs over individual interests.
This quote by Benito Mussolini highlights the fundamental principle of fascism, where individual rights and interests are subservient to the goals and objectives of the state. It implies that an individual's worth and freedom are conditional upon their alignment with state ideology, reflecting the authoritarian nature of fascist regimes that suppress personal liberties for national unity and power.
In practice
In a discussion about government control and individual liberties.
Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to be rich - the ego is absorbing energy, its life-breath. You are ignorant and you want to become a wise one - the ego is absorbing energy. You are a wretched nobody and you want to become powerful - the ego is absorbing energy.
As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this transitory one All other memories of travels, people and my surroundings have paled beside these interior happenings But my encounters with the 'other' reality, my bouts with the unconscious, are indelibly engraved on my memory. In that realm there has always been wealth in abundance, and everything else has lost importance by comparison.
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.
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