Fascism Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Weapons, Irony

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• We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, People, Monsters

  "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

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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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• Fascism means first of all defending your nation against the dangers that threaten it. It means the destruction of these dangers and the opening of a free way to life and glory for your nation.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Mean, Way, Firsts

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (2015). “For My Legionaries”, p.96, Black House Publishing Ltd

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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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• Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

  Marilyn Manson

  Way, Politics, Made

  Song: The Beautiful People

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• Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

  Frank Capra

  Isms, World, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  America, People, Corporations

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies.

  Ugo Cavallero

  Government, Upset, Allies

  "Improbable Heroes". Book by Carl L. Steinhous, p. 104, 2005.

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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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• 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

  Children, Men, Training

  Marcus Garvey (1991). “The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers”, p.642, Univ of California Press

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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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• I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

  Norman Mailer

  People, Childhood, Grace

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• Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Government, Economy

  Ronald Reagan, Mark J. Green, Gail MacColl (1983). “There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error”, Pantheon

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• Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Beautiful, Reality, Sublime

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.27, Vintage

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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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• Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Socialism, Illusion, Communism

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• Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy in their late middle age, and show little gratitude for, or any idea about, what gave them such latitude. If they cannot find perfection in history, they see no good at all.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Years

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• Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag.

  Sinclair Lewis

  America, Flags

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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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• I don't think fascism is dying for.

  Mort Sahl

  Thinking, Dying

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• Style is originality; fashion is fascism. The two are eternally and unalterably opposed.

  Lester Bangs

  Fashion, Two, Style

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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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• 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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