Quotes About Fascism

I realize that fascism is an old-fashioned word today, but it wasn't in 1947, and since it always began first with the separation and then with the suppression of an unpopular minority, it seemed a lot wiser and easier to fight it in the opening stage than wait until it

reached its second or third or final stage."10 (Indeed, on November 2, 1947, writer Thomas Mann, a German émigré, said precisely that: "I am painfully familiar with certain political trends, spiritual intolerance, political inquisitions, and declining legal security, and all this in the name of an alleged 'state of emergency' … that is how it started in Germany. What followed was fascism and what followed fascism was war.")11

Non sei mica fascista? - mi disse. Era seria e rideva. Le presi la mano e sbuffai. - Lo siamo tutti, cara Cate, - dissi piano. - Se non lo fossimo, dovremmo rivoltarci, tirare bombe, rischiare la pelle. Chi lascia fare e s'accontenta, è già un fascista

Future of America. — Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

We're the Fascist States of America today, not the United States of America, because the corporations are in power.

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.

The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.

Women aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.

Of course I'm a feminist…if you're not for the equal treatment of men and women, then you're a fascist.

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.

If the world turned Fascist, if Cummings had his century, there was a little thing he could do. There was always terrorism. But a neat terrorism with nothing sloppy about it, no machine guns, no grenades, no bombs, nothing messy, no indiscriminate killing. Merely the knife and the garrote, a few trained men, and a list of fifty bastards to be knocked off, and then another fifty.

The great majority of Americans, however, viewed the growth of authoritarian collectivist ideologies in Europe during the Great Depression with suspicion and fear. Although Communism had in many ways been the original challenge, it was not difficult to see similarities between the Communist faith – especially in its Stalinist form – and other contemporary political directions, such as fascism or national socialism. They all represented a challenge to America.

The name for that kind of system in Europe was corporatism, fascism, or national socialism. But the World of Tomorrow Roosevelt would design, Walt Disney would promote, and Superman would personify was to be a friendly fascism securing truth, justice, and the American way, freedom in abundance and abundance in freedom, ultimately for the whole human race.

Behind every fascism there is a failed revolution.

The masses have a right to change property relations; Fascism seeks to give them an expression while preserving property. The logical result of Fascism is the introduction of aesthetics into political life. The violation of the masses, whom Fascism, with its Führer cult, forces to their knees, has its counterpart in the violation of an apparatus which is pressed into the production of ritual values.

Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

the surly orphan of American politics Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the grim joker in the deck, whose nightrider candidacy [is] a rough approximation of the potential for an American fascism." People

Cuando la burguesía ve huir el poder de sus manos, recurre al fascismo para mantenerse. Buenaventura Durruti

una victoria electoral de la izquierda habría inducido a los fascistas a tratar de subir al poder mediante el habitual golpe de Estado militar. En todo caso habría que enfrentarse a ellos con las armas en la mano. Los acontecimientos han confirmado la corrección de este cálculo; el análisis de los anarquistas era más realista que el de los políticos tradicionales.

All Fascism did not die with Mussolini. Hitler is finished--but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains. It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than it is to kill the ideas which gave them birth and strength.

After the war Cairo became a sanctuary for Nazis, who advised the military and the government. The rise of the Islamist movement coincided with the decline of fascism, but they overlapped in Egypt, and the germ passed into a new carrier.

Mass movements are always so unhip. That's what was great about punk. It was an antimovement, because there was knowledge there from the very beginning that with mass appeal comes all those tedious folks who need to be told what to think. Hip can never be a mass movement. And culturally, the gay liberation movement and all the rest of the movements were the beginning of political correctness, which was just fascism to us. Real fascism. More rules.