…for the greatest hatred. Didn't get very far with him. What finally got him was himself. The same might be true of Mussolini. The same was certainly true of Joseph Stalin. The probabilities are that almost as great an amount of hatred was turned against…

…The hero does not achieve his end. In some mysterious and some infamous manner, his destiny, like the destiny of Hitler or Mussolini, is cut short. Like Napoleon, he ends at Alba. Like Alexander, he falls or ceases not far from Babylon. Always this great…

…had a divinity complex. He believed that God had appointed him to save the world. There is no doubt in the world that Mussolini had the same type of attitude, and so did Hitler. They were strangely imbalanced mystics who felt in some way the pressure of…

…success or moderate achievement. They must go on and on to the domination of society. People of the caliber of Hitler, Mussolini, Napoleon are examples of this tremendous drive which ends in tragedy to themselves and disaster to the world. Therefore, the…

…of Pompey's statue, Alexander dead at the foot of the walls of Babylon, Napoleon in St. Helena, Hitler in the bunker in Berlin, Mussolini hanging on a lamppost in Italy. These things all seem to add up to the fact these men did not live according to…

…forgotten as at the present time the earth belongs to whoever can get a mortgage on it. And everyone, Napoleon, Caesar, Hitler, Mussolini, all these have tried to get that mortgage. The earth is here and they are gone. Actually, we do not own this…

…escape. It was a calculated risk. And he chose the hazardous way. Anything rather than to continue for a lifetime in mediocrity. It was Mussolini who said that it is better to live a few years as a lion than a lifetime as a lamb, and that is exactly…

…And Hitler finally dead in a bunker in Berlin. And his friend and a fellow dictator, Adolf Hitler, not doing much, Benito Mussolini, not doing much better, also died assassinated or killed to get rid of him. So all these people together should have…

…false values seem to be the most attractive. No one considers a mediocre career to be as attractive as a few years of despotism. Mussolini himself said he'd rather be a lion for a few years than a lamb for a lifetime. He got his wish. Now, Bacon,…

…curious wisdom has built the length of the human life as a final proof of the fallacy of physical ambition but the individual says as Mussolini is reported to have said that he would rather live a few years as a lion than a long life as a lamb well…

…many points that it is not impossible that he could be correct in this one. He was correct in Hitler, he was correct in Mussolini, he was correct in Louis XVI, and many, many others. And there is no reason to doubt that he could be right again. That…

…fields of Troy We remember the Inquisition, the conquests of Napoleon, Caesar and Alexander. The attempted conquests of Hitler and Mussolini. We know there was nothing but misery. There was nothing but sorrow and people under a mistaken concept of patriotism…

…gone, the great wars of Attila and Atlantic. It will teach us a little bit about Solomon and Napoleon and Hitler and Mussolini and Stalin. It will give us a very interesting short section of all these things. But what we're reading is memory. Therefore,…

…conclusively that all these tyrants came to a bad end and why are we so anxious to join them? Perhaps it is because, like Mussolini, we would rather live a few years as a liar than live a long life as a quiet human being doing good. Ambition probably…

…lives false ambitions have slain the ages the glory of alexander is gone Caesar is dead at pompous power. Hitler and Mussolini have gone their way. All of the great dictators have left and left nothing behind but monuments to Sodom. Little dictators…

…happened. Muhammad poisoned at the Feast of Kaibat. One after another, these great conquerors, Hitler, dead in a bunker in Berlin, Mussolini, dead on an Italian highway. One after another, all these great ambitious people who have tried to conquer the world…

…of life, which we must absolve by having orators get up and harangue us. Harangue us as Hitler harangued Germany. as Mussolini harangued Italy, as Stalin harangued Russia. And out of all of this haranguing and debating and discussing came only death into…

…he thought things through, that the end had to be disaster. Why did he go on? Why did Hitler go on? Why did Mussolini go on? Fully aware that disaster was inevitable. The answer is only one thing. And that is the fulfillment of immediate desire. And…

…And that is the fulfillment of immediate desire. And that moment of glory that leads but to the grave was the most important thing. Mussolini said that he would rather live five years as a lion than twenty years as a lamb. And he had his choice. But…

…we see Napoleon dying of cancer on the island of St. Helena we see Hitler committing suicide in a bunker in Berlin we see Mussolini and a lamp post in northern Italy the path of glory leads but to the grave therefore there is some reason why these…

…could escape the world by conquering it. Perhaps the reason why we have had Genghis Khan and Hitler and Alexanders and Caesars, Mussolini and Stalin, is because the human soul has misread an archetypal symbolism. Man has sensed that he had to overcome the…

…that it would result in the betrayal of their own purposes. In World War II, both Germany and Italy, under Hitler and Mussolini, outlawed secret societies for fear that from them would rise the force that would later judge them, and would make more rapid…