Quotes tagged ‘Fascism’

“We're fighting against fascism, not punctuation.”

— Amy Sherman-Palladino, Abe Weinberg, Tony Shalhoub, imdb.com

“Today, we are all rightly repulsed by the sight of neo-Nazis and Klansmen openly marching in Charlottesville, VA, and we are horrified by houses of worship being shot up by right-wing terrorists. But on February 20, 1939, over 20,000 Nazis held a mass rally—not in Berlin, not in Rome, but in Madison…”

— Bernie Sanders, vox.com

“These demagogic non sequiturs undercut conservative claims to value the truth. And that has policy consequences: the supposedly conservative Pence and company have been pushing the lie for a week now that the free market is a failure and case-by-case economic fascism from above is the solution to lo…”

— Ben Shapiro, dailywire.com

“You don’t need anybody to keep you down because you got your own little inner fascist right there telling you what you can and cannot do. That’s how you let them win.”

— Frank Spotnitz, Mark Sampson, Michael Gaston, imdb.com

“These buildings were not designed to thrill or elevate or warm with their beauty. They are designed to dwarf the individual, to intimidate, to remind constantly that the state is all powerful and supreme, that the individual is meaningless in the grand scheme of things.”

— Anthony Bourdain, Himself - Host, Anthony Bourdain, imdb.com

“Power is not inherited, Lydia, it’s taken.”

— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Quinn, Marton Csokas, imdb.com

“Fascism is a reactionary force which is trying to preserve the old system by means of violence. What will you do with the Fascists? Argue with them? Try to convince them?”

— Joseph Stalin, newstatesman.com

“Firstly, it is not true that fascism is only the fighting organisation of the bourgeoisie. Fascism is not only a military-technical category. Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organization that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of…”

— Joseph Stalin, marxists.org

“Fascism is the bourgeoisie’s fighting organization that relies on the active support of Social-Democracy. Social-Democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism.”

— Joseph Stalin, en.wikiquote.org

“Fascism first causes, then thrives on, the chaos for which it presents itself as sole cure.”

— William Gibson, twitter.com

“Why did everyone want to go to Italy during World War II? They were Fascistanating.”

— KhandakerFaisal, reddit.com

“One of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”

— Tom Wolfe, volokh.com

“It is one of the most obvious distinctions between power and violence that power always stands in need of numbers, whereas violence relying on instruments up to a point can manage without them. A legally unrestricted majority rule, that is, a democracy without a constitution, can be very formidable…”

— Hannah Arendt, nybooks.com

“We’re supposed to believe that Trump’s support stems from economic stagnation or dislocation. Maybe some of it does. But what Trump offers his followers are not economic remedies — his proposals change daily. What he offers is an attitude, an aura of crude strength and machismo, a boasting disrespec…”

— Robert Kagan, washingtonpost.com