It wasn't that I was stupid. . . It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.
The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of lymph nodes and put a bunch of weird stuff in it and pack it up in plastic cans and plastic bins, and let's eat that way. That'll be great. " People don't choose that.
Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (. . . ) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (. . . ) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of Salò] is also included.
Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes