Benito Mussolini Quotes

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy no one has his way.

Government by one man: He is called a lord if he inclines to a good and common end; a tyrant if he is inclined to pursue bad or merely personal ends.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

Emperor Napoleon is nothing but an ordinary king who tramples on human rights.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

Despotisms usually ground themselves upon the theories of extreme democracy.

The good government of one man is the bad government of another

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

"Magna Carta is the Law: Let the King look out." So it has always been with tyrants among our own people: when the King was tyrant, let him look out. And it has always been the same, and will be the same, whether the tyrant be the Barons, whether the tyrant be the Church, whether he be demagogue or dictator - let them look out.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of Tyrant has been somewhat redefined by the incumbent, Lord Vetinari, as the only form of democracy that works. Everyone is entitled to vote, unless disqualified by reason of age or not being Lord Vetinari.

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them.

Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.