fascism quotes

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

- Benito also called Il Duce [the Leader] Mussolini
Quoted in the Enciclopedia Italiana.

It isusual tospeakof the Fascist objective asthe'beehive state', which does a grave injustice to bees. A world of rabbits ruled by stoats would be nearer the mark.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.12.

Not God but a swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.

- Sylvia Plath
  'Daddy', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel, 1965).

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

- Dame Muriel Sarah ne  e  Camberg Spark
  The Girls of Slender Means.

We were obsessed by the feeling that this was the supreme cause of our time. The cause of poets and of writers.The cause of freedom. And that unlessthe cause of anti-Fascism was won, unless Fascism was defeated, we would be unable to exist as writers.

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
  Speaking on the ITV seriesThe Spanish CivilWar, no.3, 'Battleground for idealists'.

In fact, they are the classic scapegoats.Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of thetransvestite.

- Edmund White
  States of Desire:Travels in Gay America, ch.2.