Top 100 Quotes About Fascism
#1. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.
Jim Bunning
#2. But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.
John T. Flynn
#3. It is thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism, people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present.
Gordon Brown
#5. The march to the center of Caracas will not be permitted. I will use a hard hand against fascism and intolerance. I declare it. If they want to overthrow me, come and get me. Here I am, with the people and the armed forces.
Nicolas Maduro
#7. Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
Jean Baudrillard
#8. With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
Jack Kemp
#9. I was indicted on two federal conspiracies. My wife was on the Ten Most Wanted list. That's what fascism was going to look like. That's what it did look like.
Bill Ayers
#11. You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.
'No, I didn't. Communism ditched me by turning into Stalinism'.
Arthur Koestler
#12. As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market with the crimes of slavery, segregation, colonialism and genocide; piss me off and I'll add fascism and the Nazis.
Greg Erwin
#13. [C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.
Jack Parsons
#14. Fascism is when corporations become the government.
Bill Maher
#15. Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.
Jose Mujica
#16. Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy stands accused of producing division and decline.
Robert O. Paxton
#17. Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
Sinclair Lewis
#19. But there's a message there for everyone and it is that people can unite, that democracy from below can challenge oligarchy, that imprisoned migrants can be freed, that fascism can be overcome, and that equality is emancipatory. The
Angela Y. Davis
#20. If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.
Huey Long
#21. We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.
Buenaventura Durruti
#22. We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
Ian Hart
#23. I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.
Dennis Prager
#24. Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.
Herbert Hoover
#25. Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
Theodor Adorno
#26. At the best of times, democracy is a seesaw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion. You see, to make a democratic omelette you have to break a few democratic eggs. To fight fascism and other evil forces threatening our country, there is nothing wrong in taking strong measures.
Rohinton Mistry
#27. You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
Arundhati Roy
#28. I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.
David Bodanis
#30. Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.
John T. Flynn
#31. Too many people today believe that you can fight fascism with fascism. This of course is an impossibility. Fascism times any other number always equals fascism.
Derek R. Audette
#32. Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.
Tibor Fischer
#33. I try not to pay any attention to clothes fascism and I'd rather be thought of as someone who has his own sense of style.
Michael Sheen
#34. In America the Struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word "Fascism" and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty. For they were thieves not only of wages but of honor.
Sinclair Lewis
#35. The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
Benito Mussolini
#36. Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#37. The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
Federica Montseny
#38. Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.
Dennis Prager
#40. Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism,
Max Horkheimer
#41. The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.
Ayn Rand
#42. In modern studios, we're so used to becoming little dictators; you're used to the fascism of having complete control over every element.
Herbert
#43. Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
Ignazio Silone
#44. There is no such thing as Russian fascism. You won't find a single Russian who considers Russians to be a superior race and who advocate expulsion of aliens.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
#45. In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.
Wilhelm Reich
#46. If there is a showdown, two enormous nations, Russia and China, standing side-by-side, will defeat fascism!
Andre Vltchek
#48. What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure.
Leonard Read
#49. Earlier in the twentieth century some critics called fascism "capitalism with the gloves off," meaning that fascism was pure capitalism without democratic rights and organizations.
Noam Chomsky
#50. Fascism is aided and advanced by the apathy of those who are tired of being conned and lied to by a bankrupt liberal establishment, whose only reason to vote for a politician or support a political party is to elect the least worst. This, for many voters, is the best Clinton can offer.
Chris Hedges
#51. Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan
#52. Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
Maajid Nawaz
#53. During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net.
Noah Feldman
#54. Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.
Arundhati Roy
#55. Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.
Karl Marx
#56. Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.
Terry Pratchett
#58. But to some extent, the whole aspect of Fascism was a real hot potato. Because so many of the aristocracy were enamored of the tenets of not only fascism but also of Adolf Hitler himself. And you know, that was treading on a lot of toes.
Jacqueline Winspear
#59. Fascism is a revolutionary force, it wants to destroy the established order and take its place - take its money, its businesses, everything it has because, to these people, the governing class in Europe is hesitant, ineffective, effete. So, destroy it.
Alan Furst
#60. For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
Benito Mussolini
#61. The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
Ralph Nader
#62. Many people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.
David Foster Wallace
#63. The free world cannot afford to accept any form of extremism, whether it is fascism, racism or religious extremism.
Widad Akreyi
#64. Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism.
Ernest Hemingway,
#65. Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with ... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.
Mark Morris
#66. Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Benito Mussolini
#67. Saddam Hussein, influenced by fascism, ordered the deaths of tens of thousands of people, fought two disastrous wars, turned his nation into an international pariah and ruined his country's economy. In other words, his record is identical to George W. Bush's.
Ted Rall
#68. You gotta beware of the utopian train of thought, mate. That's usually the first step towards fascism.
Daniel Clausen
#69. If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
Theodor W. Adorno
#70. Donald Trump announced his no Muslims are allowed to come to the United States plan and that led to one of the greatest tweets of all time from New York Times columnist. Quote, "OK, I concede I picked the wrong day to modestly walk back my Trumpism as fascism column."
Rachel Maddow
#71. The relationship between fascism and robotics, for instance, it's very clear that it's going to become way more important as time goes by.
Jose Padilha
#72. Oh, I don't know. Italy always seemed an awfully long way to go for fascism and olives." "I rather like olives." "Mother rather liked fascism. We had to burn all the photographs when war was declared." They
Chris Cleave
#73. If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.
Jack Larson
#74. Fascism will perish for the very reason that it has applied to man the laws applicable to atoms and cobblestones!
Vasily Grossman
#75. Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization.
Marcus Garvey
#76. Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war.
Christina Engela
#77. Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
A.J.P. Taylor
#78. What a pity people don't take as much trouble with their own breeding as intelligent racehorse owners do. But then I suppose it is bordering on fascism to think like that.
Jeffrey Bernard
#79. My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.
Ann Coulter
#81. What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#82. Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#83. [Donald] Trump is fascism, that's all, so we have to find a way to work it out between Hillary [Clinton] and Bernie [Sanders].
Tom Hayden
#84. Crisis is routinely identified as a core mechanism of fascism because it short-circuits debate and democratic deliberation. Hence all fascistic movements commit considerable energy to prolonging a heightened state of emergency. Across the West, this was the most glorious boon of World War I.
Jonah Goldberg
#85. After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
Hans Kung
#86. We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.
Marilyn Manson
#87. Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.
George Bernard Shaw
#88. When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
John Cusack
#89. Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
Barbara Tuchman
#91. We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism.
Marcus Garvey
#92. Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.
Ken Kesey
#93. If the world is divided between Fascism and Communism, obviously Fascism must lose since it is the last, desperate refuge of the bourgeoisie
Czeslaw Milosz
#94. It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which is the actuality of this film. Therefore, it's not specifically an explanation of German Fascism because that would be an impossible thing to do in any case.
Michael Haneke
#95. It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.
David Chipperfield
#96. Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.
Roland Barthes
#97. The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
Bill Alexander
#98. Nationalism, coupled with great faith in the power of the government to enact domestic bargains between labor and capital, has been seen before: it was called fascism then.
Raghuram G. Rajan
#99. Darwinism has laid the groundwork for Hitler's and Mussolini's fascism and Stalin's communism.
Harun Yahya
#100. The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
Henry A. Wallace
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