Fascism Quotes

• A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Money, Party, Race

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• Fascism is capitalism in decay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Decay, Politics

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• Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lying, Bully

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.193, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fascists, Dictatorship, Rational

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Government, Communism

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• Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist, that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level. [...] Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I am opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Community, Political

  "One Man’s View". Interview, chomsky.info. May, 1973.

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• The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Power, Essence

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.305, Best Books on

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• Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tyrants, Libertarian Party, Thought Provoking

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.94, Beacon Press

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• The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!

  Benito Mussolini

  Struggle, Two Worlds, Democracy

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• I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, Names, Ideas

  "Tolerance, Health and Fascism". townhall.com. August 27, 2013.

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• The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

  John Lescroart

  Law, Essence, Enemy

  John Lescroart (2009). “A Plague of Secrets”, p.90, Penguin

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• The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest of the nation. In view of the fact that private organisation of production is a function of national concern, the organiser of the enterprise is responsible to the State for the direction given to production.

  Benito Mussolini

  Views, Facts, Spheres

  Benito Mussolini (1935). “Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions”

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• Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

  George Carlin

  War, Believe, Germany

  "Real Time" with Bill Maher, September 9, 2005.

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• It's better to live one day as a lion than a dozen years as a sheep.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Sheep, Years

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• 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

  Truth, Cracks, Facts

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• 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

  Essence, Groups, Doctrine

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• Human beings are worthy of the highest respect, but not all opinions and beliefs are worthy of respect and tolerance. There are some who believe in fascism, white supremacy, the inferiority of women. Must they be respected?

  Maryam Namazie

  Believe, Two, White

  "One woman's war" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2005.

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• Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

  David Icke

  Different, Psychological, Crime

  Interview, metro.co.uk. July 16, 2002.

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• The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state.

  Unknown

  Definitions, Corporations, States

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• 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

  Love, Everyday, Desire

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• To know what Fascism really is we must first of all know what it is we are fighting, what the Fascist regimes really are and do, who puts up the money and backs Fascism in every country, and who owns the nations under such regimes, and why the natives of all Fascist countries must be driven into harder work, less money, reduced standards of living, poverty and desperation so that the men and corporations who found, subsidize and own Fascism can grow unbelievably rich.

  George Seldes

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

  John T. Flynn

  Results, Dictatorship

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• Fascism is not just a word. It`s not just a way to insult someone with whom you disagree. It is a specific thing. It is a specific form of far right politics that involves a sort of narcissistic cult of superman action around the leader of the party.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Leader, Narcissistic

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• 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

  War, Struggle, Fighting

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• Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

  Benito Mussolini

  Historical, Century, Fascists

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