301 Quotes About Fascism

You can’t fix what you don’t know is broken; even if we know society is broken none of us are aware of every sliver.

Da wird die Seele des Menschen unbeweblich wie das Anblitz eines Fisches.

But nothing surprises me now. I’ve grown used to living in a world that is out of joint, as if it has been struck by an enormous earthquake so that the roads are no longer flat, nor the building straight.

For good people to do evil doesn't require only religion, or even any religion, but simply one of it's key elements: belief without evidence-in other words, faith.And that kind of faith is seen not just in religion, but any authoritarian ideology that puts dogma above truth and frowns on dissent.This was precisely the case in the totalitarian regimes of Maoist China and Stalinist Russia, whose excesses are often (and wrongly) blamed on atheism.

For good people to do evil doesn't require only religion, or even any religion, but simply one of it's key elements: belief without evidence-in other words, faith.And that kind of faith is seen not just in religion, but any authoritarian ideology that puts dogma above truth and frowns on dissent.This was precisely the case in the totalitarian regimes of Maoist China and Stalinist Russia, whose excesses are often (and wrongly) blamed on atheism.Faith vs. Fact. p. 220

Бабушка Шура присела у окна посмотреть на дорогу. На проспект Ильича. В народе называли его Макшоссе.— Что это, Ирочка? Война? Немцы снова напали? Танки, Ирочка. Десять штук? Напали немцы?— Нет, — сухо сказала уставшая Ирочка.Наши танки? Учения?— Нет, — снова сказала дочь. — Не наши. Наших в городе нет.— Ну что ты тогда меня путаешь! — рассердилась бабушка Шура. — Если наших нет, а танки едут по Макшоссе, это значит фашисты. Опять фашисты. Что же это, Ирочка?

...one of the great tasks of ecological thinking will be to develop an ecological civicism that restores the organic bonds of community without reverting to the archaic blood-tie at one extreme or the totalitarian "folk philosophy" of fascism at the other.

Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the Nazis. Why? Because they were pro-Fascist, was the obvious answer.

What is at work in this report is the reduction of language to code. Cliches, coined by the state, become the only acceptable vocabulary. Everyone knows what to say and how to respond. It is scripted. Vocabulary shrinks so that the tyranny of nationalist rhetoric leaves people sputtering state-sanctioned slogans.