Fascism Quotes - Page 10

• I am thankful that the church exists, thankful that it has done such great things, giving us laws, for instance - 'thou shalt' and 'thou shalt not', and established Goodness and Evil. That's what all religions do, and as soon as we try to replace them, worldly religions like fascism and communism take over.

  Gerhard Richter

  Law, Evil, Giving

  Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.timeout.com. October 10, 2011.

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• 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

  Clothes, Style, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech.

  Roland Barthes

  Doe, Speech, Language

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• In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Character, Average, Reactions

  "The Mass Psychology of Fascism". Book by Wilhelm Reich, 1933.

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• David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fascists, Historian

  "Hitler's Ghost". Vanity Fair, pages 72-74, www.fpp.co.uk. June 1996.

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• 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

  Hands, Here I Am, People

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• I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.

  Enoch Powell

  Fighting, Nazism, Born

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 489), 1999.

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• Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Community, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.138, AK Press

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• I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism . . . The only way to react is to get up in the morning and start the day by saying four or five vastly politically incorrect things before breakfast!

  P. D. James

  Morning, Believe, Political

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• The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.

  L. Neil Smith

  Government, Class, Important

  "Rule By Thieves: One Week in the American Kleptocracy" by John W. Whitehead, www.counterpunch.org. March 17, 2017.

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• Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Past, Murder

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.193, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in order to challenge the threatening tide of Nazism and fascism and also to provide employment for actors from Los Angeles's British colony. The best two were Hollywood's Gunga Din and Britain's The Four Feathers...

  Philip French

  Order, Two, Challenges

  "The Four Feathers" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

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• As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field.

  Benito Mussolini

  Attitude, Political, Doctrine

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• Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.

  Frank Capra

  Ideas, Trouble, Communism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Such terms as communism, socialism, Fabianism, the welfare state, Nazism, fascism, state interventionism, egalitarianism, the planned economy, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier are simply different labels for much the same thing.

  Leonard Read

  Egalitarianism, Labels, Nazism

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• Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.

  Francis George

  Love Is, Justice, Way

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Nazism, Slavery

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• Of course there are many films about the period of Fascism itself but I don't know of any about that period beforehand. But it wasn't that specific fact that they weren't there that got me to think about this in the first place. It's not what led to the basic idea for the film, although it became apparent when I began to think about it.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Ideas, Firsts

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.

  David Bodanis

  Technology, Long, Helping

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• 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

  Spiritual, States, Fascists

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• I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late '50s, early '60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism. I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late '50s, early '60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Italian, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's something about us using the word fascism and thinking about, "What is it? What does it mean, and what are the tenets of it?".

  Morgan Parker

  Mean, Thinking, Doe

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• In my earliest of years, my mother was a huge force in my life. She was for all intents and purposes, a single parent. My father had abandoned us. He was an alcoholic and a physical abuser. My mother lived through that tyranny and made her living as a domestic worker. She was uneducated but she brought high principles and decent values into our existence, and she set lofty goals for herself and for her children. We were forever inspired by her strength and by her resistance to racism and to fascism.

  Harry Belafonte

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Although we had a lot of villainy here in America, Adolf Hitler was certainly the most visible illustration of what would happen if fascism went unchallenged.

  Harry Belafonte

  Illustration, America, Happens

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.

  Adrienne Rich

  People, Support, Groups

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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