Fascism Quotes - Page 2

• Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Industry

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• That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Essence, Monopoly Power

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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• Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

  Harry Belafonte

  Oppression, Terrorism

  "Belafonte Blasts 'Gestapo' Security". www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2006.

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• Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

  Theodor Adorno

  Emotional, Democracy, Source

  Theodor W. Adorno, Samuel H. Flowerman (1964). “The Authoritarian Personality: Studies in Prejudice”

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• The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

  Michael Parenti

  Dirty, People, Political

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.32, City Lights Books

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• Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

  Ignazio Silone

  Revolution, Rebellious

  Ignazio Silone (1963). “The School for Dictators”, New York : Atheneum

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• If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Money, Greed, United States

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• Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Ideas, Guy, Nazism

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.

  Oswald Mosley

  People, Movement, World

  Oswald Mosley (2012). “My Life - Oswald Mosley”, p.298, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep

  Benito Mussolini

  Inspirational, Funny, Sheep

  "ITALY: Duce (1922-43)". content.time.com. August 2, 1943.

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• That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Hate, Fascists

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• Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Latin, War, America

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• The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Air, People, Giving

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• 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

  Commitment, Justice, Social

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.79, Haymarket Books

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• American fascism will not be really dangerous until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information, and those who stand for the K.K.K. type of demagoguery.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Information, Type, Coalitions

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• The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

  George Orwell

  Desirable

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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• I think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in a new and bizarre kind of digital totalitarian state - one that looks and feels democratic on the surface, but has a fierce undercurrent of fear and technologically enforced fascism any time you step out of line. I really hope this isn't the case, but it looks really bad right now, doesn't it?

  Chelsea Manning

  Real, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wings, Faces, Revolution

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• Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

  Tommy Douglas

  Order, Class, People

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• Fascism is not an article for export.

  Benito Mussolini

  Articles

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• No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Fighting, Government, Hands

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Order, Political, Politics

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• Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Military, Philosophical, Numbers

  "On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg," Libération, June 22, 1953.

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• Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.

  Adam McKay

  Would Be, Definitions, Corporations

  "Citizens United : A Week Later" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2010.

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• I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

  Jim Garrison

  Peace, War, Names

  Playboy interview, October, 1967.

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