Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can direct human society. It denies that numbers can govern by means of periodical consultations: It asserts the unavoidable fruitful and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage.
Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism, June 1932. Quoted in William T. Blackstone, The Concept of Equality, Burgess Publishing Co., 1969 (p. 145); also in Omar Dahbour and Micheline Ishay, The Nationalism Reader,Humanity Books, 1995.