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“Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion is simple. The Semitic texts from Bronze Age Palestine of which Christianity is comprised still fit uncomfortably well with contemporary life. The Old Testament depicts a God capricious and cruel; blood sacrifice, vengeance, genocide; death and destruction et al. Would He not approve of Herr Hitler and the brutal, tribalistic crusade against Hebrews and non-Christian ‘untermensch?’ One thing is inarguable. His church on Earth has produced some of the most vigorous and violent contribution to the European fascist cause. It is synergy. Man Created God, even if God Created Man; it all exists in the hubris and apotheosis of the narcissistic soul, and alas, all too many of the human herd are willing to follow the beastly trait of leadership. The idea of self-emancipation and advancement, with Europe under the jackboot of fascism, would be Quixotic to the point of mirthless lunacy.”

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Book:Jackboot Britain
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“En la España franquista, la Ley de Vagos y Maleantes de 1954 incluye por primera vez a homosexuales y desviados sexuales. El comandante Antonio Vallejo-Nájera, jefe de los servicios médicos militares, y Juan José López Ibor llevan a cabo sucesivas investigaciones con el fin de examinar las raíces psicofísicas del marxismo (para descubrir el famoso «gen rojo»), la homosexualidad y la intersexualidad, preconizando, a pesar de la escasa tecnificación de las instituciones médicas durante el franquismo, la lobotomía, las terapias de modificación de conducta, el tratamiento mediante electroconvulsiones y la castración terapéutica con fines eugenésicos.”

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Book:Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era
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“Also a fan of being inscrutable, Franco once said, 'You are a the slave of what you say and the master of what you don't say.' He might have added that that approach isn't always guaranteed to work. If you attempt, for example, to be sphinx-like, mysterious and enigmatic when you get to the front of a long queue at the chip shop, you do risk being punched quite hard in the back of the head.”

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“La vida oficial és un fàstic. La dictadura tot ho contamina, i quan algú mínimament neutral o moderadament refractari al Règim arriba a ostentar un càrrec oficial, la butaca li infecta els baixos amb els seus efluvis pestilents, que li amaren els glutis i penetren pel forat del cul per anar-se apoderant del seu cos i de la seva ànima, per dintre i per fora. Viure a l'Espanya de Franco és com tenir cagarrines, pare paret. No saps mai quan hauràs de córrer.”

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“Besides the local residents, Meraud frequently entertained visitors from other parts of the world. There was an extremely eccentric Spanish marquise, a royalist who had fled Franco and was plotting the return of the monarchy to Spain. She was an aggressive lesbian who seemed to expect Meraud to provide her with a female companion. Meraud balked at this, complaining that she had no intention of procuring for any of her guests. One day the marquise showed me the jacket of a book she had written about the Spanish War under a male pseudonym, featuring a photo of the marquise cross-dressed as a man, with a fake mustache to enhance the illusion.”

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Book:Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Business
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“-Verán, amigos míos, Franco adapta su discurso oficial a las circunstancias. Deberían conocerlo después de tanto tiempo a su lado. Es muy gallego. Permite que la Falange imitadora de los nazis sea antisemita, pero él mismo no lo es, lo mismo que no es falangista ni monárquico, ni republicano. - ¿Pues, qué es? - pregunta Vigón. - Es solo partidario de él mismo. Es franquista, si me permite esta expresión.”

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Book:La tentación del Caudillo
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“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.”

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Author:Gertrude Stein
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“The Reformed Church was identified with the old all-white government of South Africa and its apartheid policy. The Roman Catholic Church was closely identified with the Franco and Salazar dictatorships in Spain and Portugal. . . . More recently, . . . the Serbian Orthodox Church has come to be identified with the policies of Serbia (Yugoslavia).”

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Author:Edd Doerr
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“He will be England captain one day. Jack Wilshere is a real leader. I saw how he spoke with the referee and the other players [against Denmark]. It is difficult to find someone so young with such a big personality. I remember two defenders, Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi, and one attacker, Raul, but for personality and confidence on the pitch he is the best young midfielder I have seen for his age.”

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Author:Fabio Capello
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“We're shaking up a format, which I think is always a good thing. The thing about [2011 Oscar hosts] James [Franco] and Anne [Hathaway] is, they've both hosted Saturday Night Live, and they both did a good job at it. So they are accustomed to working with short rehearsal time, and live, lots of pressure, rewrites, things like that. They can make quick changes, which is very advantageous, and they're skilled comedians.”

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Author:Bruce Vilanch
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“I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth Avenue had small bookstores, many of which were run by Spanish immigrants who'd fled after [Francisco] Franco's victory. I spent time in them, and also in the offices of Freie Arbeiter Stimme (Free Worker's Voice) with anarchists. I picked up a lot of material and talked to people, and it became a major influence.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky
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“You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really remarkable because they claim that [Franklin] Roosevelt was impeded by the Neutrality Act. On the other hand, he bitterly condemned a Mexican businessman for sending several guns to the Republic. If you look back, oil was the one commodity that [Francisco] Franco could not receive from the Germans and the Italians, so that was quite significant.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky
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“There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been destroyed, what were the alternatives? There was actually a proposal by Camillo Berneri, an Italian anarchist who was in Spain at the time, which is not a crazy notion in my opinion. He opposed participation in government and was against the formation of an army, meaning a major army to fight [Francisco] Franco.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky
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“[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out land reform, attract the base of the Moorish army, and see if they could undermine [Francisco] Franco's army through political warfare in Northern Africa combined with guerrilla warfare in Spain. Historians laughed at that, but I don't think they should have. This was the kind of war that might have succeeded in stopping Spanish fascism.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky
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