Giovanni Gentile

“[...] intellectualism (as understood by Fascists) divocers thought from action, science from life, the brain from the heart, and theory from practice. It is the posture of the talker and the skeptic, of the person who entrenches himself behind the maxim that it is one thing to say something and another thing to do it; it is the utopian who is the fabricator of systems that will never face concrete reality; it is the talk of the poet, the scientist, the philosopher, who confine themselves to fantasy and to speculation and are ill-disposed to look around themselves and see the earth on which they tread and on which are to be found those fundamental human interests that feed their very fantasy and intelligence.”
― Giovanni Gentile, Origins and Doctrine of Fascism: With Selections from Other Works

“Oggi in Italia gli animi sono schierati in due opposti campi; da una parte i fascisti, dall’altra i loro avversari, democratici di tutte le tinte e tendenze, due mondi che si escludono reciprocamente. Ma la grandissima maggioranza degli italiani rimane estranea e sente che la materia del contrasto, scelto dalle opposizioni, non ha una consistenza politica apprezzabile ed atta ad interessare l’anima popolare.”
― Giovanni Gentile, Opere Giovanni Gentile