#fascism

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If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism." (Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)


Winston Churchill


#fascism #history #italy #lenin #politics

The delay in the application of the policy to books has several explanations. For one thing, Blackshirts were not, nor have they yet become, bookworms; and the intellectual bread of Mussolini himself is made, usually, of clippings. They did not care too much about things which they could not hate since they usually did not know them....


Giuseppe Borgese


#fascism #italy #mussolini #censorship

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.


Jonah Goldberg


#fascism #government #liberalism #political #politics

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


Albert Einstein


#irresponsibility #nationalism #mankind

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.


Friedrich A. von Hayek


#fascism #communism

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.


Simone Weil


#democracy #fascism #military #police #military

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 Benigni


#born #country #everybody #fascism #history

My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.


Ann Coulter


#because #benefits #fascism #friends #getting

India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.


Stafford Cripps


#before #brutal #contribution #defeat #fascism

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


#core #death #extreme #fascism #kitsch