— George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008
Real Time with Bill Maher, September 9, 2005
— Tim Buck Canadian politician 1891 - 1973
Referring to the Canadian The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion who fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War Tim Buck A Conscience for Canada
— Rebecca West British feminist and author 1892 - 1983
Context: It would seem … that man has been shocked by the war into forgetting how to be a political animal. This suspicion is confirmed by the spread of Fascism, which is a headlong flight into fantasy from the necessity for political thought. There is nothing more obvious about the post-war situation than that it is novel, springs from causes which have not yet been analysed, and cannot be relieved until this analysis is complete and has been made the basis of a new social formula. Yet persons supporting Fascism behave as if man were already in possession of principles which would enable him to deal with all our problems, and as if it were only a question of appointing a dictator to apply them.
"The Necessity and Grandeur of the International Ideal" (1935)
— François Furet French historian 1927 - 1997
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— Steve Sailer American journalist and movie critic 1958
World War T http://takimag.com/article/world_war_t_steve_sailer/print#axzz4A3cQmle0, Taki's Magazine, January 22, 2014
— Thomas Merton Priest and author 1915 - 1968
p. 82
— A. James Gregor American political scientist 1929
p. 356
— Georgi Dimitrov Bulgarian politician 1882 - 1949
Context: With the development of the very deep economic crisis, with the general crisis of capitalism becoming sharply accentuated and the mass of working people becoming revolutionized, fascism has embarked upon a wide offensive. The ruling bourgeoisie more and more seeks salvation in fascism, with the object of taking exceptional predatory measures against the working people, preparing for an imperialist war of plunder, attacking the Soviet Union, enslaving and partitioning China, and by all these means preventing revolution. The imperialist circles are trying to shift the whole burden of the crisis onto the shoulders of the working people. That is why they need fascism. They are trying to solve the problem of markets by enslaving the weak nations, by intensifying colonial oppression and repartitioning the world anew by means of war. That is why they need fascism.
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— Stanley Baldwin Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1867 - 1947
Context: When one is young one is always in a hurry, and it may well be to-day that those two alien plants— for they neither have their roots in England— Communism and Fascism, may appeal to many of you. This is a free country. You can support either creed, and you can support it in safety, but I want to put this to you. If there be one thing certain, to my mind it is this. That if the people of this country in great numbers were to become adherents of either Communism or Fascism there could only be one end to it. And that one end would be civil war.
Broadcast from London (6 March 1934); published in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 23
— Leon Trotsky Marxist revolutionary from Russia 1879 - 1940
— Steve Bannon American media executive and former White House Chief Strategist for Donald Trump 1953
Third International Conference on Human Dignity https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world?utm_term=.ph1V8aOPJz#.vhqa3rnxpW (2014)
— Smedley D. Butler United States Marine Corps General, 2 time Medal of Honor recipient and activist 1881 - 1940
Reply to Gerald MacGuire, after being asked to organize WWI veterans (for military support) in a fascist-coup of FDR, as related by Butler in testimony before Congress, 1934. A reporter (a Butler confidant) testified MacGuire said, "We might go along with Roosevelt and then do with him what Mussolini did with the King of Italy." Which was, made him a figure-head.
— Zeev Sternhell Israeli historian 1935
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— Peter F. Drucker American business consultant 1909 - 2005
p. 243
— Zeev Sternhell Israeli historian 1935
p. 27
— Frederick B. Maurice
Context: As a soldier who has spent a quarter of his life in the study of the science of arms, let me tell you I went into the British Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I believe now that if you prepare thoroughly and efficiently for war, you get war.
Speaking in Carnegie Hall, New York City, on 4 April 1919.
