Fascism quotes

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◆ Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.

- Albert Einstein100

◆ If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

- Henry A Wallace99

◆ 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 Roy99

◆ Fascism is a religious concept.

- Benito Mussolini99

◆ Fascism is not an article for export.

- Benito Mussolini99

◆ 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 Patten99

◆ 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 Durruti99

◆ 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 Bunning99

◆ Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

- Elfriede Jelinek99

◆ 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 Foucault99

◆ Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

- Aneurin Bevan99

◆ 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 Benigni99

◆ What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

- Mohandas Gandhi99

◆ I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

- Oriana Fallaci99

◆ Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is no different. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we know this is simply not true, and therefore we must redefine the terrain of this conflict, and clearly, it is a conflict of worldviews and agendas.

- Teresa Stover99