Fascism Quotes - Page 9

• Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Opposites, Democracy, Communism

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Trends, Outcomes, Reactions

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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 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 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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• I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Philosophy, Liberty, Arbitrary

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Believe, Doe

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• This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

  Joseph Stalin

  War, People, Ordinary

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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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• We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that Stoicism is appropriate to a cosmopolitan despotism; that stochastic philosophy is an intellectual expression of the Church as an organization; that philosophy since Descartes, or at any rate since Locke, tends to embody the prejudices of the commercial middle class; and that Marxism and Fascism are the philosophies appropriate to the modern industrial state.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Expression, Class

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• 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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• Since many people have been asking me to elaborate on why I think "Inglourious Basterds" is akin to Holocaust denial, I'll try to explain what I mean as succinctly as possible, by paraphrasing Roland Barthes: anything that makes Fascism unreal is wrong. For me, "Inglourious Basterds" makes the Holocaust harder, not easier to grasp -- as a historical reality, I mean, not as a movie convention. Insofar as it becomes a movie convention, it loses its historical reality.

  Jonathan Rosenbaum

  Mean, Reality, Thinking

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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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• 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

  Police, Atheism, Christianity

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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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• 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 realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came to me in Sarajevo a year or two later... That was an early quarrel between me and many of my Nation colleagues, and it was also the first time I found myself in the same trench as people like Paul Wolfowitz and Jeane Kirkpatrick: a shock I had to learn to get over. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Interview with Jamie Glazov, historynewsnetwork.org. December 23, 2003.

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• In many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished edifice of American Progressivism--is in fact a descendant and manifestation of fascism.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Facts, Century, Manifestation

  Jonah Goldberg (2009). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Daughter, Movement, Today

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.2, Crown Forum

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• One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.

  L. Neil Smith

  Police, Nazi, Authority

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