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Fascism is capitalism in decay. -- Vladimir Lenin
Fascism is a religious concept. -- Benito Mussolini
Fascism is capitalism plus murder. -- Upton Sinclair
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. -- Benito Mussolini
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
Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast. -- Ken Kesey
Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction. -- Leon Trotsky
Fascism is not an article for export. -- Benito Mussolini
Fascism is not the result of dictatorship. -- John T. Flynn
But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form. -- John T. Flynn
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. -- Harry Belafonte
We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution. -- William Bolitho
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. -- Benito Mussolini
That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
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
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
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
Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State. -- Benito Mussolini
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
Fascism is capitalism in decay -- Vladimir Lenin
Fascism is a religious concept -- Benito Mussolini
Fascism is capitalism plus murder -- Upton Sinclair
Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism. -- Leon Trotsky
Fascism is when corporations become the government. -- Bill Maher
Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples. -- Wilhelm Reich
Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe. -- Michel Leiris
Fascism is a lie told by bullies. -- Ernest Hemingway
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Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. -- Ronald Reagan
Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it. -- Benito Mussolini
Fascism will come to America wrapped in a flag, -- Sinclair Lewis
Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans. -- John T. Flynn
When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism! -- Huey Long
Fascism is [...] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state. -- Tibor R. Machan
Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place. -- Ignazio Silone
I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. -- Oriana Fallaci
Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling -- Miguel de Unamuno
Islam should be compared to other totalitarian ideologies like Communism or Fascism. -- Geert Wilders
Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement. -- Huey Long
Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend. -- George Carlin
Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's. -- Benito Mussolini
If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism. -- Huey Long
What the American people must never forget - is that when Fascism comes to America -- Arthur Kinoy
Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error. -- Ludwig von Mises
David Irving is not just a Fascist historian . He is also a great historian of Fascism . -- Christopher Hitchens
In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens. -- Benito Mussolini
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power -- Benito Mussolini
Fascism is meaningless because it's so completely indefinable, so where does the 'anti' come into the equation? -- Penny Rimbaud
Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and economic sphere. -- Benito Mussolini
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. -- Aneurin Bevan
The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.' -- George Orwell
Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one. -- Jonah Goldberg
The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them! -- Benito Mussolini
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans. -- Bill Nighy
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. -- Jean Baudrillard
Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations. -- Terry Pratchett
Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed. -- Theodor Adorno
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
Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism. -- Herbert Hoover
I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism. -- Enoch Powell
The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator. -- John T. Flynn
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations. -- Ezra Pound
Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently. -- A. J. P. Taylor
As regards the Liberal doctrines, the attitude of Fascism is one of absolute opposition both in the political and in the economical field. -- Benito Mussolini
Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator. -- John T. Flynn
We were the first Fascists, when we had 100,000 disciplined men, and were training children, Mussolini was still an unknown. Mussolini copied our Fascism. -- Marcus Garvey
Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives priviliges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. The jackasses remain. Triumphant. -- Indro Montanelli
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
Too many people today believe that you can fight fascism with fascism. This of course is an impossibility. Fascism times any other number always equals fascism. -- Derek R. Audette
Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
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
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament. -- Jose Mujica
Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation. -- Arundhati Roy
Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State. -- Benito Mussolini
Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual. -- Benito Mussolini
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
Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy stands accused of producing division and decline. -- Robert O. Paxton
When Goldberg's 'Liberal Fascism' came out in January 2008, his employer 'National Review Online' announced that Tribune Media Services, which carries Goldberg's opinion columns, had 'nominated' Goldberg for a Pulitzer in commentary. -- Bill Dedman
Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State ... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual. -- Benito Mussolini
Fascism allegation [to Donald Trump] is not coming from the left. This is coming from the right. It`s coming from inside the Republican Party and from within mainstream conservative thought. -- Rachel Maddow
Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice. -- Samuel P. Huntington
The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power. -- Albert J. Nock
Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads. -- George Bernard Shaw
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal. -- Louis de Bernieres
Fascism means first of all defending your nation against the dangers that threaten it. It means the destruction of these dangers and the opening of a free way to life and glory for your nation. -- Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time. -- Ronald Reagan
Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time. -- Ronald Reagan
Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time." -- Ronald Reagan
Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege. -- Tommy Douglas
In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to confess the Jewish plot. Because in Fascism, you are guilty for your whole being. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis. -- Sinclair Lewis
Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government. -- Fran Lebowitz
This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism -- Joseph Stalin
I wonder how many such men in America would know that Communism, the New Deal, Fascism, Nazism, are merely so-many trade-names for collectivist Statism, like the trade-names for tooth-pastes which are all exactly alike except for the flavouring. -- Albert Jay Nock
With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind. -- Jack Kemp
When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts. Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend. -- George Carlin
May I just single out for salutations, on the 'anti-war' side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam. -- Julie Burchill
Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society. -- Peter Drucker
My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home. -- Smedley Butler
Fascism is the cult of organised murder , invented by the arch-enemies of society . It tends to destroy civilization and revert man to his most barbarous state. Mussolini and Hitler might well be called the devils of an age, for they are playing hell with civilization. -- Marcus Garvey
Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly. -- Oswald Mosley
JosÃ© Antonio Primo de Rivera stated, "Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith. -- Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
But to some extent, the whole aspect of Fascism was a real hot potato. Because so many of the aristocracy were enamored of the tenets of not only fascism but also of Adolf Hitler himself. And you know, that was treading on a lot of toes. -- Jacqueline Winspear
The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs! -- Benito Mussolini
If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it. -- H. L. Mencken
It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history. -- Ludwig von Mises
And the only forms of socialism in the world that were then getting results - malign ones, as it was - were the Fascist and Soviet republics. Fascism is a form of socialism - you rebuild the country, you find a scapegoat, and you go from there. -- James Ellroy
I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If we depose Mussolini, however, the new government should do nothing drastic to upset Hitler until we can secretly negotiate an armistice with the Allies. -- Ugo Cavallero
I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. -- George Orwell
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
It could be Fascist, religious or political - it's always the same model that operates in these circumstances, and it's that which is the actuality of this film. Therefore, it's not specifically an explanation of German Fascism because that would be an impossible thing to do in any case. -- Michael Haneke
The family is the American fascism. -- Paul Goodman
We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government. -- Buenaventura Durruti
The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan. -- Henry A. Wallace
I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. -- Jim Garrison
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good. -- Jonah Goldberg
Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism. -- David Icke

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