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Assorted quotes by Fascists or about Fascism

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I did a bit of online research on short and pronounced quotes surrounding the topic ofFascism. I've compiled a list of some that stood out to me as relevant to current times.Most of them are by rather famous people. Thought I'd share it with DemocraticUnderground.

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14 Characteristics of Fascism by Dr. Lawrence Britt:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause4. Supremacy of the Military

5. Rampant Sexism6. Controlled Mass Media

7. Obsession with National Security8. Religion and Government are Intertwined9. Corporate Power is Protected

10. Labor Power is Suppressed11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption14. Fraudulent Elections

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge

known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in thehighest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazior Communist. --Winston Churchill

All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the moststupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever andconstant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and alsothe other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.--Adolf Hitler

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'. It was the tactic

of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries ofEurope, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' became thejustification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the

greatest achievement that demagoguery attains. --Herbert Hoover

Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings

fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it isbased on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units. --Carl Gustav Jung

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want torisk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in onepiece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England,

nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the

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country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people

along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or acommunist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to thebidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being

attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the countryto danger. It works the same in any country."

-- Hermann Goering

Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy-- Hermann Goering

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last

resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all itsfaults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come afterthe war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

--Henry A. Wallace

Fascism is capitalism in decay.--Vladimir Lenin

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate andgovernment power. --Benito Mussolini

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private powerto a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence,is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,--Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the mostchauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism.

-- Karl Marx(On edit: An error of mine. As was pointed out in the replies "This was said by theExecutive Committee of the Communist International in 1935. Georgi Dimitrov ofBulgaria is the likely author." )

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall beallowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

--Thomas Jefferson

Fascism, at any rate the German version, is a form of capitalism that borrows fromSocialism just such features as will make it efficient for war purposes.

--George Orwell

Though we know that National Socialist power must be broken by military means, we aretrying to achieve a renewal from within of the severely wounded German spirit. This

rebirth must be preceded, however, by the clear recognition of all the guilt with whichthe German people have burdened themselves, and by an uncompromising battle againstHitler and his all too many minions

--The White Rose

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, whichdare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the

laws of our country."Thomas Jefferson