#fascism

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#fascism #nature

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy? ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fascism #liberty #loss #politics #society

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#continue #fascism #form #modified

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#assumed #before #behold #conditions #far

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

— Henry A. Wallace

#america #come #disease #either #fascism

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#brand #european #fascism #latin #latin america

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#freedom #politics #religion #freedom

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#islamofascism #september- #love

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#come #fascism #hands #perfectly #will

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#behavior #causes #desire #dominates #everyday