Fascism Quotes - Page 8

• We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions - by abandoning every value except the will to power - they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, Sacrifice, Presidential

  Address to Joint Session of Congress Following 9/11 Attacks, delivered 20 September 2001

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• The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Power, Men

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• Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Cripples, Frenzy

  Dušan Makavejev, Wilhelm Reich (1972). “WR, mysteries of the organism: a cinematic testament to the life and teachings of Wilhelm Reich”

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• If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Political, Democracy

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• Fascism is meaningless because it's so completely indefinable, so where does the 'anti' come into the equation?

  Penny Rimbaud

  Doe, Equations, Indefinable

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Weapons, Irony

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• [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

  Freedom, Power, Hands

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• Have not fascism in Italy and National Socialism in Germany claimed that they have attained
  similar results [as in U.S.S.R.]? Have not both been achieved at the price of privation and personal liberty sacrificed for the good of the state?

  Joseph Stalin

  Liberty, Germany, Socialism

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

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• I think the media in America have been absolutely fantastic about the rise of Trump, they've kept a firm eye on the ball: this constitutes democracy, this constitutes transparency, this constitutes fairness, this constitutes the way to behave in a civic society, this constitutes fascism, this constitutes authoritarianism. They're drawing that line, and they're calling him out every time. That's really what needs to happen, and you just have to do that.

  Irvine Welsh

  Eye, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If there is a showdown, two enormous nations, Russia and China, standing side-by-side, will defeat fascism!

  Andre Vltchek

  Russia, Two, Sides

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of community and connection, a commitment to the idea that we are our brothers' keepers.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Brother, Commitment

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• Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism.

  Boyd Rice

  Law, Perfection, Joy

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• 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

  War, Democracies Have, Evil

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• Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy - diverse enemies all - did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and their supporters in Mexico, Argentina, Eastern Europe, and the Arab world. Instead, those in jackboots and armbands worldwide quietly stowed all their emblems away as organized fascism died on the vine once the roots were torn out in Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo. So too will the terrorists, once their sanctuaries and capital shrivel up - as is happening as we speak.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Weed, Roots, Japan

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• I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism.

  Glenn Beck

  Country, Moving, Mean

  "Voter intimidation–guess the party". Interview with Pat Gray, www.glennbeck.com.

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• Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

  Leon Trotsky

  Caricatures

  Leon Trotsky (2002). “Fascism: What it is and how to Fight it”, p.20, Resistance Books

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• The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Liberty, Movement

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• If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will be the changes wrought by astonishing scientific breakthroughs

  Cynthia Tucker

  Change, Communication, Science

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• The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted by, 68% of the world's GDP is produced in, and 89% of the world's population live in countries that are not handcuffed by Kyoto's restrictions. Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda. Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Kyoto, Gdp

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• Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.

  Sinclair Lewis

  America, Flags

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• The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism] to enable them [the Illuminati] to divide larger and larger portions of the human race into opposing camps so that they could be armed and then brainwashed into fighting and destroying each other.

  Myron Coureval Fagan

  Fighting, Race, Order

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• The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.

  George Seldes

  Heart, Media, Deceit

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• Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.

  Vasily Grossman

  Kindness, Men, People

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• USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

  Ezra Pound

  Cancer, Cutting, Knives

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• I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

  Jane Fonda

  Goodbye, Father, Fighting

  "The Truth About My Trip To Hanoi". www.huffingtonpost.com.

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