“The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.” HumansStoriesPastDemocracyRightsUniversalHuman RightsTerrorismDeterminedIranFascismFundamentalismRemindersDemocracy And Human Rights Author:Azar Nafisi
“We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.” IfsGivingOrderEnemyDemocracyStupidBearsWeaponsAffairFascismTicketsParliamentSalaryFlocksArsenal Author:Joseph Goebbels
“The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!” WorldTwoStruggleDemocracyCompromisePermitFascismTwo WorldsNo Compromise Author:Benito Mussolini
“The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!” WorldYearsTwoIdeasStatesStruggleDemocracyGreaterCompromiseAlternativesReliefCyclesPermitFascismRegimesFascistsTwo WorldsNo Compromise Author:Benito Mussolini
“It is obvious that the fascist mass pestilence, with its background of thousands of years, cannot be mastered with social measures corresponding to the past three hundred years. The discovery of the natural biological work democracy in international human intercourse is the answer to fascism. This will be no less true even if not one of the living sex-economists, orgone biophysicists or work democrats should live to see its general functioning and its victory over the irrationalism in social life.” IfsShouldYearsHumansPastThreeSocialSexNaturalAnswersDemocracyVictoryMassHundredDiscoveryDemocratInternationalObviousBackgroundsFascismEconomistIntercourseFascistsSocial LifeCorrespondingPestilence Author:Wilhelm Reich
“My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.” IfsWarRealHomeInterestHellDemocracySoldierFascismHobbiesMaintainingAdvocating Author:Smedley Butler
“The peoples of Yugoslavia do not want Fascism. They do not want a totalitarian regime, they do not want to become slaves of the German and Italian financial oligarchy as they never wanted to become reconciled to the semi-colonial dependence imposed on them by the so-called Western democracies after the first imperialist war.” WantFirstsWarWantedDemocracySlaveWesternFinancialItalianFascismRegimesDependenceOligarchyYugoslaviaTotalitarian Regimes Author:Josip Broz Tito
“Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.” GovernmentFormInterestingDemocracyExcitingNotionCommunismDullFascismForms Of Government Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.” PeopleHalfDemocracyCrazyShameMiserableFascism Author:Norman Mailer
“Growing terrorism, permissive societies, democracy collapsing through lack of law and order. If things continue on their present track, the disintegration of Western societies will occur much sooner than you think under the hammer blows of fascism and communism. Freedom is not something that does not have a breaking point, and your enemies would like you to reach that point.” IfsThinkingDoeLawOrderEnemyDemocracyGrowingLike YouWesternTrackBlowTerrorismCommunismFascismHammersLaw And OrderDisintegrationWestern SocietyPoint Break Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy stands accused of producing division and decline.” PoliticalOrderPoliticsEnergySocialCommunityDemocracyAuthorityUnityPurityDivisionFascismDeclineAccusedSocial OrderLiberal Democracy Author:Robert O. Paxton
“Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.” ThinkingPoliticalCommunityDemocracyEconomicMajorsInstitutionsFascismPointlessParticipants Book:Language and Politics Source: Language and Politics
“The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists - or ever existed, or ever will exist - is a kleptocracy, meaning "rule by thieves." Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce.” FirstsImportantDifferentGovernmentLeftForgetClassDemocracyProduceImportant ThingsExcuseSocialismIdeologyProductiveFascismThievesCompeting Author:L. Neil Smith
“Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it.” CountryStatesHomeIndividualEnjoyNaturalDemocracyGraceReadyLaborAssumingHeavyHostFascismMaintaining Author:Norman Mailer
“Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.” GivingEvilDemocracyHeardPatientCuresFascismMalariaSyphilis Book:It Can't Happen Here (搶救美國) Source: It Can't Happen Here (搶救美國)
“May I just single out for salutations, on the "anti-war" side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam.” MayWarShowsActorsStarsSidesUnitedDemocracyPopsDancerGenocideFascismFlagsAnti WarApathySaddamConveniencePop StarsAppeasementFashionistaJugglersSalutations Author:Julie Burchill
“In the 19th century it was basically nationality and people trying to define their nationalism and create states which would reflect their nationalism. In the 20th century, ideology came to the fore, largely, but not exclusively, as a result of the Russian Revolution and we have fascism, communism and liberal democracy competing with each other. Well that's pretty much over.” PeopleTryingWellsStatesResultsDemocracyCenturyRevolutionIdeologyCommunismNationalismFascismCompeting20th CenturyNationality19th CenturyRussian RevolutionLiberal Democracy Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.” IfsWorldHas BeensPracticeDemocracyTheoryAcceptedAround The WorldCommunismFascismDemocracies HaveLiberal Democracy Author:Samuel P. Huntington
“With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.” WarEndsHelpingEvilDemocracyMankindCenturyColdCommunismFascismCold War20th CenturyApartheidNazismDemocracies HaveIsms Author:Jack Kemp