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Quotes About Fascism

There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.
~ Suzanne Fields
India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.
~ Stafford Cripps
I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy.
~ David Blunkett
Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.
~ Dennis Prager
There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
~ Ted Cruz
The threat to capitalism is no longer communism or fascism but a steady undermining of the trust modern societies need for growth and stability.
~ Robert B. Reich
A sad figure (Bush) ' not too well educated, who doesn't get out of America much. He's leading the country towards Fascism.
~ Larry Hagman
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
~ Jean Baudrillard
All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture.
~ zweig stefan
Whenever Mosley was heckled at one of his rallies, he stopped speaking and searchlights focused on the heckler as jackbooted men beat him and then threw him out of the hall.
~ Adam Hochschild
Fascism is a revolutionary force, it wants to destroy the established order and take its place—take its money, its businesses, everything it has because, to these people, the governing class in Europe is hesitant, ineffective, effete. So, destroy it.
~ Alan Furst
positivists were people without firm moral commitments and therefore without any means of resisting the dogmatic certainties of communism and fascism.
~ Alan Jacobs
Fascism is an Italian term that means "groupism" or "collectivism." The fasci in Italy were groups of political activists who got their name from the fasces of ancient Rome—the bundles of rods carried by the lictors to symbolize the unified strength of the Romans. The core meaning of the term fascism is that people are stronger in groups than they are as individuals.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
But you, you'd never hire a hooker, would you? Because you believe the concept of love is real and attainable and not merely a myth perpetrated by religious demagogues and prohibitionists and fascist conglomerates.
~ Don Lee
Victoria was always nagging him to eat better, drink less, and go to the gym, but then again, Pablo has long felt that she (barely) sublimates her innate fascism with exercise and diet regimens and has recently taken to attending weekly "boot camp" sessions where she probably achieves orgasms as some steroid-enraged instructor screams at her. Ana
~ Don Winslow
Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.
~ Herbert Hoover
That's another step forward in creating a nation of sheep in a totalitarian state, saying, "Yes sir, yes sir! Is that what you want? Do it to me again!" By the time they graduate, kids won't even know they have rights. They'll be little stooges for a fascist state.
~ Jerry Brown
freedom is not less endangered if attacked in the name of anti-Fascism than in that of outright Fascism.
~ Erich Fromm
We also recognize that the crisis of democracy is not a peculiarly Italian or German problem, but one confronting every modern state. Nor does it matter which symbols the enemies of human freedom choose: freedom is no less endangered if attacked in the name of anti-fascism or in that of outright fascism
~ Erich Fromm
Analyse those dynamic factors in the character structure of modern man, which made him want to give up freedom in fascist countries and which so widely prevail in millions of our own people.
~ Erich Fromm
the readiness to accept any ideology and any leader, if only he promises excitement and offers a political structure and symbols which allegedly give meaning and order to an individual's life. The despair of the human automaton is fertile soil for the political purposes of Fascism.
~ Erich Fromm
The despair of the human automaton is fertile soil for the political purposes of Fascism.
~ Erich Fromm
FaÅŸizm ve benzeri hareketler (ki, bunlar?n isimlerini onlar ortaya ç?k?p geliÅŸtikten sonra koyar?z ) ancak, hem ferdi ve hem de toplumsal hayat? etkileyen kararlar? verme noktas?nda yayg?n bir pasifliÄŸin olduÄŸu ve insanlar?n kat?l?mc? olmad??? toplumlarda yeÅŸerirler. (Hayat? Sevmek)
~ Erich Fromm
If we want to Fascism we must understand it. Wishful thinking will not help us. And reciting optimistic formulae will prove to be as inadequate and useless as the ritual of an Indian rain dance.
~ Erich Fromm