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Quotes About Fascism

Are you a communist? No I am an anti-fascist For a long time? Since I have understood fascism.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But are there not many fascists in your country? There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But are there not many fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But are there not many fascists in your country? There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes." But you cannot destroy them until they rebel? No, Robert Jordan said. We cannot destroy them. But we can educate the people so that they will fear fascism and recognize it as it appears and combat it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Don Guillermo's house was no house, since he had not much money and was only a fascist to be a snob and to console himself that he must work for little
~ Ernest Hemingway
Socialism is bad,' he said, 'jingoism is worse, and the two combined in a kind of debased Italian Fascism is the worst creed ever designed by man.
~ Andrew Roberts
A fascist believes that if, for example, you're born black, or you're born Jewish, that you're predestined from that genetic accident to behave a certain way and deserve to be treated a certain way as well. My books stand for the proposition that the monsters who frighten us have a genesis, and the genesis is *not* genetic.
~ Andrew Vachss
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
~ Aneurin Bevan
Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
~ Parker Palmer
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
You can not prove that Fascism is anything but a sordid, retrogressive despotism, which crushes the individual liberty and strangles the intellectual life of every country it inflicts with its slimy presence … and Fascism is nothing but a new fad-name for industrial tyranny … the Fascist movement in America is nothing but a move on the part of the money-barons to establish themselves more firmly than ever, to stamp out the last vestige of freedom in the people beneath them
~ Robert E. Howard
him. He spent more than three hours in the Uffizi Gallery, staring in wonder at its famous works of art. His entourage tried to keep him moving. Behind him, Mussolini, who had never willingly stepped foot in an art museum in his life,1 muttered in exasperation, "Tutti questi quadri…"—"All these paintings…"2 But Adolf Hitler would not be hurried.
~ Robert M. Edsel
At the best of times, democracy is a seesaw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion. You see, to make a democratic omelette you have to break a few democratic eggs. To fight fascism and other evil forces threatening our country, there is nothing wrong in taking strong measures.
~ Rohinton Mistry
In a sense, all political use of Nietzsche is a perversion of his teaching. Nevertheless, what he said was read by political men and inspired them. He is as little responsible for fascism as Rousseau is responsible for Jacobinism. This means, however, that he is as much responsible for fascism as Rousseau was for Jacobinism.
~ Leo Strauss
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.
~ Leon Trotsky
After all, they said, the French Fascists now in power had identical interests with the Germans. Les loups ne se mangent pas entre eux—wolf does not eat wolf. Hitler's government and Laval's government were playing into each other's hands.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].
~ John Dingell
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
~ John T. Flynn
Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.
~ Benito Mussolini
Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.
~ Indro Montanelli
Um tirano vence por seu gênio, mas seu sucessor será sempre um rematado canalha. Por esta razão, luto sem tréguas e apaixonadamente contra os sistemas dessa natureza, contra a Itália fascista de hoje e contra a Rússia soviética de hoje. A atual democracia na Europa naufraga e culpamos por esse naufrágio o desaparecimento da ideologia republicana.
~ Albert Einstein