best quotations about
Fascism |
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Quotations
 | What Marxism, Leninism and Stalinism failed to accomplish, we shall be in a position to achieve. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 13 likes |
 | When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 12 likes |
| The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 11 likes |
 | If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 9 likes |
 | Fascism is capitalism in decay. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 9 likes |
 | Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 8 likes |
 | The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 8 likes |
 | Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 7 likes |
 | One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 7 likes |
 | Fascism begins with the thought that everybody else is an idiot. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 7 likes |
 | Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 7 likes |
 | Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 6 likes |
 | Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society. Fascism, a program for the social control of intellect. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 6 likes |
 | Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications. — Umberto Eco, 1932-2016, Italian writer 6 likes |
 | Why do you think that at 67 I would start a career as a dictator? — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 2 likes |
 | Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. |
 | He says he wants to be free. Kill him! |
 | Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. |
 | Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally. |
 | The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. |
 | When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!”. When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable, the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer. |
| The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot. |
 | If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. |
 | Man should not be in the service of society, society should be in the service of man. When man is in the service of society, you have a monster state, and that's what is threatening the world at this minute. |
 | Dictators are born in the houses where one does not dare to give an order to the maid. |
 | If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body – and with it your own voice – and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all. |
 | Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. |
 | Brain-washing starts in the cradle. |
 | Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all. |
 | The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. |
 | In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions. |
 | Degenerated to a wretched level of the masses, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism erupted into hysterical barbarism. |
 | Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic. |
 | Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny. |
 | Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience violates the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism. |
 | The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. |
Personal Stories
 | The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | O you tyrant, Titus Tatius, such things you made happen! O Tite tute Tati tibi tanta tyranne tulisti! — Ennius, 239-169 BC, Roman writer (Latin tongue twister) 14 likes |
Stupid Quotes
| Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 8 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | The hands of the tyrants reach long. Μακραί τυράννων χείρες. 4 likes |
Special Quotes
 | One People, one State, one Leader. Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer. — Motto of the Nazis 3 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | In '33, Goebbels asked Lang to head the German film industry. That very night, Lang left Germany. — from the film Contempt (1963) 4 likes |
