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Quotes About Fascism

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.
~ Jonah Goldberg
Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism
~ Jonah Goldberg
Unity in faith is theocracy unity in politics is fascism.
~ Maajid Nawaz
That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.
~ Buenaventura Durruti
The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
~ Ralph Nader
[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
Superheroes] aren't fascists. They are just ordinary, decent, super-powerful people who inhabit a world in which fascism is the only political possibility.
~ David Graeber
There is rioting in the suburbs; an openly racist party sits in Riksdagen, the parliament; intolerance is growing; fascism is on the rise and there are homeless people and beggars everywhere. In many ways Sweden has become a shameful nation.
~ David Lagercrantz
While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.
~ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.
~ Medea Benjamin
We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.
~ WILLIAM BOLITHO
I have great faith in the millennials and in what they understand about social media, and how they're going to be able to counter fascist forces as they come.
~ Lynn Hershman Leeson
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
~ Benito Mussolini
Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.
~ Jane Fonda
Every colonial nation carries carries the seeds of a fascist temptation in its bossom. What is fascism if not a regime of oppression for the benefit of a few
~ Albert Memmi
Feminist admirers of direct action often overlook Mary Richardson's later public life. After participating in bombing and arson campaigns in support of suffragism, Richardson became a very senior member of the British Union of Fascists,[14] a path that other Suffragettes followed.
~ Alexander Adams
There's a reason that whenever fascists come to power, the writers are among the first to go to jail.
~ Alexander Chee
We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
~ Emily Greene Balch
The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
~ Naomi Wolf
Trump displays many of the traits of a proto-fascist, and he is also part of a wave of right-wing nationalist movements that is sweeping the West. He can also be positioned in the long, American right-wing tradition of fearing 'the Other,' whether they are Catholics or Jews or, now, Muslims.
~ Peter Bergen
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
~ Upton Sinclair