Benito Mussolini Quotes

The consent of the people is as mutable as the sands of the seashore. The consent of the people is never complete, never permanent.

Another weapon I discovered early was the power of the printed word to sway souls to me. The newspaper was soon my gun, my flag – a thing with a soul that could mirror my own.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

Only a base, vile, insignificant country can be democratic. A strong and heroic people tends to aristocracy.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.

Inactivity is death.