Fascists Quotes - Page 12

• The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Views, Avant Garde

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• In organized groups such as the army or the Church there is either no mention of love whatsoever between the members, or it is expressed only in a sublimated and indirect way, through the mediation of some religious imagine in the love of whom the members unite and whose all-embracing love they are supposed to imitate in their attitude towards each other. It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.

  Theodor Adorno

  Religious, Attitude, Army

  "Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda". "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader", 1982.

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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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• Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Roots, Asks

  Il Giornale, January 05, 1990.

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• Liberalism is fundamentally an ideology of liberation that has throughout history risen in protest against the totalitarian and anti-human movements of various kinds, such as communism and nazism. It is therefore natural that the Progress Party with its liberal base once again stands first in the line and takes up the fight when a new fascist ideology as Islamism is spreading throughout the world.

  Carl I. Hagen

  Party, Fighting, Progress

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• Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Self, Germany, Defense

  tvn24.pl, July 05, 2008.

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• Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks and charlatans - not to mention the possibilities of the book as the economic bible of a fascist movement.

  Henry Calvert Simons

  Book, Irritation, Idols

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• Los Estados Unidos has turned into a banana republic, a fascist banana republic.

  Gerald Celente

  Republic, Bananas

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• What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.

  May Sarton

  Men, America, Giving

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• The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.

  Emma Goldman

  Character, Government, Color

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

  Erica Jong

  Lasts, Firsts, Morality

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.86, Penguin

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• ... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship.

  Margaret Walker

  Country, Thinking, Long

  Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (2002). “Conversations with Margaret Walker”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.

  Pietro Badoglio

  Government, Rome, Land

  "A Special Mission" by Dan Kurzman, (p. 9), 2007.

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• We have won on the Arlov, Kursk, Belgorod, and Kharkov grounds. We won because the country was being defended not only by the army but by the entire Soviet people. The Socialist economy, Soviet political structure, and Marxist-Leninist ideology proved their unarguable excellence against the Fascist economy, Fascist political structure, and Fascist ideology of Germany.

  Ivan Bagramyan

  Country, Army, Socialist Economy

  "I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal", Yerevan, 1987.

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• The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.

  Terence McKenna

  Vegetables, Broken, Golden

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• Sir Oswald Mosley thought his job is not just keep Britain from going to war with his beloved Germany, he saw it as his job to organize a complementary fascist movement inside the U.K. So, he formed this organization as the British Union of Fascists in `32. In 1936, they changed their name to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists

  Rachel Maddow

  Jobs, War, Names

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• Famously in 1936, Oswald Mosley led a march of his British black shirts through a mostly Jewish neighborhood, in the east end of London. What resulted was what they called the "Battle of Cable Street", where Oswald Mosley and his fascists basically got the snot beaten out of them when East London rose up against them and beat them up.

  Rachel Maddow

  East London, Rose, Black

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• CNN recently ran a sort of roundup article on why some conservatives say that Trump talk is fascist. The roundup included this tweet from Iowa Republican radio host, very influential guy in Iowa Republican caucuses, Steve Deace. Quote, "If [Barack] Obama proposed the same religion registry as Trump, every conservative in the country would call it what it is - creeping fascism."

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Iowa, Cnn

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• Donald Trump removed all doubt. He is running for president as a fascist demagogue.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Doubt, President

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• The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans.

  Paul Erdos

  Suffering, Enjoy, Plans

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• Along with currency manipulation, the New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

  Herbert Hoover

  Agriculture, Manipulation, Currency

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• It's a loser's emblem (swastika), because the Nazis lost the war. It's ridiculous to suggest we are involved with fascists. All my best friends are black, gay, Irish or criminals.

  John Lydon

  War, Gay, Black

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• A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch Big Brother.

  Bill Maher

  Brother, Government, Everyday

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• In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.

  Theodor Adorno

  Soul, World, Prison

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.53, Stanford University Press

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