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Quotes About Fascism

The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.
~ Chris Hedges
I absolutely refuse to associate myself with anyone who cannot discern the essential night-and-day difference between theocratic fascism and liberal secular democracy, even less do I want to engage with those who are incapable of recognizing the basic moral distinction between premeditated mass murder and unintentional killing.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The church has made efforts to apologize for all this, but its complicity with fascism is an ineffaceable mark on its history, and was not a short-term or a hasty commitment so much as a working alliance which did not break down until after the fascist period had itself passed into history.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there's no point in any euphemism about it. What they abominate about 'the west,' to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Cardinal Schuster and Monsignor Bicchierai had long been among the most prominent clerical supporters of fascism in Italy, according to SS Colonel Eugen Dollmann, who handled negotiations with the Vatican for the SS during the last days of the war.
~ Christopher Simpson
Emotionalism without intellect from victims without power was how lynch mobs and nationwide hate groups were formed—the basic strategy of fascism, I concluded with a shiver.
~ Tristan Taormino
L'Ur-fascisme croît et cherche le consensus en exploitant et exacerbant la naturelle peur de la différence. Le premier appel d'un mouvement fasciste ou prématurément fasciste est lancé contre les intrus. L'Ur-fascite est donc raciste par définition.
~ Umberto Eco
L'Ur- Fascismo parla la neolingua. [...] Tutti i testi scolastici nazisti o fascisti si basavano su un lessico povero e su una sintassi elementare, al fine di limitare gli strumenti per il ragionamento complesso e critico. Ma dobbiamo essere pronti a identificare altre forme di neolingua, anche quando prendono la forma innocente di un popolare talk-show.
~ Umberto Eco
Ogni qual volta un politico getta dubbi sulla legittimità del parlamento perché non rappresenta più la voce del popolo, possiamo sentire l'odore di Ur-Fascismo.
~ Umberto Eco
L'eroe Ur-Fascista gioca con le armi, che sono il suo Ersatz fallico: i suoi giochi di guerra sono dovuti a una invidia penis permanente.
~ Umberto Eco
America's leading newspaper proprietors, Mr. Hearst and Colonel McCormick, Cissy Patterson and Frank Gannett, were loyal friends of Nazi-Fascism, operating under democratic disguise. Their tens of millions of readers were by now thoroughly indoctrinated, and the mothers of America wanted nothing but to get their sons out of this world holocaust.
~ Upton Sinclair
The Fascisti would develop falsehood into a new science and a new art; they would teach it to one dictator after another, until half the human race would no longer have any means of telling truth from falsehood.
~ Upton Sinclair
This Senator of the hillbillies was one of the most active and determined advocates of Fascism in the Western World; but Lanny reflected that quite possibly he didn't know it was Fascism and would have been indignant at the term. What he called it was Americanism, or plain hundred-per-cent patriotism.
~ Upton Sinclair
The Italians were tireless in giving assurances to their friends; and every evening you could hear the voice of the American poet, Ezra Pound, speaking in English from a station on the Italian Riviera, ridiculing the idea that the ignorant rabble was fitted to govern any country, and hailing Fascism and its "corporate state" as the form of the future society.
~ Upton Sinclair
Huey Long, unfortunately, had been shot; a shrewd devil, he had said: "It will be easy to bring Fascism in America. Just call it Anti-Fascism.
~ Upton Sinclair
The Fascist groups were becoming more and more active, and were resorting to gangsterism, as in all the countries bordering on Italy and Germany. They were provided with funds not only from French capitalist sources, but also from abroad.
~ Upton Sinclair
But wait till the war's over, and the countries of Europe vote Red or Pink, as they're sure to do, and the Boss stands by them, as I know he will. Then you'll see these big fellows foaming at the mouth, and that's the time they will act. We'll discover then that American Fascism is more deadly than either Italian or German, because our masters have more money, and believe more in money power, and are more used to having their own way in all things.
~ Upton Sinclair
There is a terrible similarity between the principles of Fascism and those of contemporary physics. Fascism has rejected the concept of a separate individuality, the concept of 'a man', and operates only with vast aggregates. Contemporary physics speaks of the greater or lesser probability of occurrences within this or that aggregate of individual particles. And are not the terrible mechanics of Fascism founded on the principle of quantum politics, of political probability?
~ Vasily Grossman
Uno de los medios de los que se sirve el fascismo para actuar sobre el hombre es la total, o casi total, ceguera. El hombre no cree que vaya al encuentro de su propia aniquilación.
~ Vasily Grossman
he was dimly aware that if you wish to remain a human being under Fascism, there is an easier option than survival -- death.
~ Vasily Grossman
Fascism will perish for the very reason that it has applied to man the laws applicable to atoms and cobblestones!
~ Vasily Grossman
If Fascism should ever be fully assured of it's final triumph, the world will choke in blood.
~ Vasily Grossman
Oggi come oggi ogni singolo uomo è tenuto, dinanzi alla sua coscienza, a suo figlio e a sua madre, dinanzi alla patria e al genere umano a rispondere con tutta la forza del cuore e della mente a una domanda: che cosa ha generato il razzismo? Che cosa bisogna fare affinché il nazismo, il fascismo, l'hitlerismo non abbiano a risorgere né al di qua né al di là dell'oceano, mai e poi mai, in secula seculorum?
~ Vasily Grossman
Astounding how similar the face of freedom can be to the face of fascism.
~ Laksmi Pamuntjak