Quotes and Sayings about Fascism
"The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain."
- Bill Alexander
(Related: Government, Character, Fascism, Fight, Force, Popular, Republican, Spain)
"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
(Related: Time, Fascism, Mankind, Suffering, Waste)
"Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression."
- Harry Belafonte
(Related: Fascism, Oppression, Terrorism)
"In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity."
- Roberto Benigni
(Related: History, Country, Fascism, Humanity, Italy, World)
"Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born."
- Aneurin Bevan
(Related: Society, Fascism, Future, Order)
"Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment."
- Kit Bond
(Related: Battle, Being, Conflict, Iraq, National security, Service)
"The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War."
- Jim Bunning
(Related: War, Communism, Fascism, Fight, Struggle, Terror, World, World war)
"But let there be no misunderstanding. The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War."
- Jim Bunning
(Related: War, Communism, Fascism, Fight, Struggle, Terror, World, World war)
"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
(Related: Work, Aggression, Defeat, Fascism, First, Future, Mankind, Nations, United)
"When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it."
- John Cusack
(Related: Politics, Death, Truth, Aesthetics, Extreme, Fascism)
"We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government."
- Buenaventura Durruti
(Related: Government, End, Fascism, Republican)
"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
(Related: Government, Power, Fascism)
"I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism."
- Oriana Fallaci
(Related: Fighting)
"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
(Related: Policy, Fascism, Today, Welfare)
"These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism."
- John T. Flynn
(Related: Fascism, Production)
"We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible."
- John T. Flynn
(Related: Power, Fascism, Italy, Today)
"Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans."
- John T. Flynn
(Related: Americans, Fascism, Will)
"Fascism is not the result of dictatorship."
- John T. Flynn
(Related: Dictatorship, Fascism, Result)
"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
(Related: Society, War, Fascism, First, Road, Will)
"But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form."
- John T. Flynn
(Related: Fascism)
"The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
- Michel Foucault
(Related: Love, Power, Behavior, Causes, Desire, Fascism)
"I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security."
- Jim Garrison
(Related: Experience, America, Fascism, Name, National security, Will)
"Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
(Related: Time, Europe, Fascism, First, Man, Opinions, Right, Want)
"We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War."
- Ian Hart
(Related: War, Fascism, World, World war)
"I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism."
- P. D. James
(Related: War, Fascism)
"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."
- Elfriede Jelinek
(Related: Society, Solidarity)
"Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast."
- Ken Kesey
(Related: Fascism)
"After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history."
- Hans Kung
(Related: History, War, Communism, End, Fascism, Humanity, World)
"Fascism is capitalism in decay."
- Vladimir Lenin
(Related: Capitalism, Fascism)
"England and Greece are friends. English blood was shed on Greek soil in the war against fascism, and Greeks gave their lives to protect English pilots."
- Melina Mercouri
(Related: War, Blood, EnglEnglish, Fascism, Friends, Greece)
"The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives."
- Frederica Montseny
(Related: Sacrifice, Fascism, Struggle, Worth)
"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."
- Mark Morris
(Related: Art, Love, Disney, Fascism)
"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."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Doctrine, Fascism, State)
"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: History, Religion, Fascism, Will)
"Fascism is a religious concept."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Fascism, Religious)
"Fascism is not an article for export."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Fascism)
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Government, Power, Corporate, Fascism)
"Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Peace, Development, Possibility, Fascism, Future, Humanity)
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini
(Related: Power, Corporate, Fascism, State)
"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off."
- Chris Patten
(Related: Politics, Growth, Extreme, Fascism, World, Zen)
"In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism."
- Jean-Marie Le Pen
(Related: Communism, Fascism)
"You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in."
- Arundhati Roy
(Related: Politics, Congress, Fascism, Hypocrisy)
"The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity."
- Jeffrey Sachs
(Related: War, Alliance, Defeat, Destruction, Fascism, Leaders, Prosperity, Salvation, World, World war)
"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
- Jean-Paul Sartre
(Related: Fascism, Victims)
"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place."
- Ignazio Silone
(Related: Fascism, Revolution)
"Fascism is capitalism plus murder."
- Upton Sinclair
(Related: Capitalism, Fascism, Murder)
"Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction."
- Leon Trotsky
(Related: Fascism, Nothing)
"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism."
- Barbara Tuchman
(Related: Power, Diplomacy, Fascism, Influence, Old, World)
"Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: War, America, Disease, Fascism, states, United, Will)
"The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Democracy, Fascism, Fighting, Germany, Struggle, Will)
"The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: America, Fascism, Present, Will)
"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Truth, American, Fact, Fascism, Newspapers, Propaganda)