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Fascists Quotes

How fascism got named, fought, and mocked on screen.

These lines look at fascism from a distance rather than up close: one speaker credits a united working-class movement with beating back the far right's 1930s advance, and another simply notes that fascists have always hated intelligence above everything else.

Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.

Quotes by Yossi Sarid

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Quotes by Miguel de Unamuno

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

Quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The far right was on the march in the 1930s, and we defeated the fascists through a great united working-class effort. That sense of unity and strength is what gave people confidence to change things.

Quotes by Ken Loach

Above Quotes

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

Quotes by Henry A. Wallace

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends.

Quotes by Henry A. Wallace

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

Quotes by Henry A. Wallace

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act...

Quotes by Henry A. Wallace

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people...

Quotes by Henry A. Wallace

Age Quotes

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

Quotes by Henry A. Wallace

My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't agree with. You're not allowed to do anything.

Quotes by Glenn Danzig

Coming of age in the 1960s, I heard the word 'fascist' all the time. College presidents were fascists; Vietnam War supporters were fascists. Policemen who tangled with protesters were fascists - on and on.

Quotes by David Oshinsky

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

Quotes by David Hackworth

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser.

Quotes by Buenaventura Durruti

American Quotes

We fought big time fascists when I was knee high to a grasshopper up in Yorkshire, when I grew up I fought fascists in the West Midlands in the form of the National Front.

Quotes by Betty Boothroyd

If Republicans are defeated in 2008, God help us all because Radical Islamic fascists will do anything by any means necessary to rid the world of the 'infidels': the enemy. In their eyes, that is America.

Quotes by Angela McGlowan

I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the fascists and the Communists, which mean different things to people, but of course they're the same: they're tyranny states.

Quotes by Alan Furst

Frequently Asked Questions

What historical angle do these Fascists quotes take?
The page focuses on fascism as a political and historical subject, including a united working-class effort that helped defeat the far right's rise in the 1930s and a line noting that fascists have always hated intelligence above all else.
Why do people search for quotes about fascists?
Students and writers researching 20th-century political history often want concise, quotable statements about how fascism rose and was resisted.
Is there a quote referencing a specific film about fascism?
Yes, one entry describes a film in which an American character chases power in Europe by interviewing real Fascists, using Mussolini and the Nazis as historical backdrop for the story.
Does this page cover the working-class resistance to fascism?
It does, with a quote crediting a united working-class movement for defeating the far right's advance in the 1930s and describing the confidence that unity produced.
What other pages relate to Fascists quotes?
Browse Above quotes or Age quotes for more on power, history, and political change.

A film reference describes a fictional American who chases power in Europe by interviewing real Fascists, using Mussolini and the Nazis as the backdrop. Browse Above or Age quotes for more on power and history.