“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”
Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
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“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”
Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls
“But are there not many Fascists in your country?”
Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls
'There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes'.
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch. 16
David Frum (1960) American political commentator
"The Roots of a Counterproductive Immigration Policy" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/an-immigration-order-as-stupid-as-it-is-counterproductive/514847/, The Atlantic (28 January 2017)
“I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.”
Chris Hedges (1956) American journalist
Source: Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt
“Fascist was, by definition, a person who happened to have been in jail in a communist country.”
Leszek Kolakowski (1927–2009) Philosopher, historian of ideas
"My Correct Views on Everything" (1974)
Context: When I collect my experiences, I notice that fascist is a person who holds one of the following beliefs (by way of example): 1) That people should wash themselves, rather than go dirty; 2) that freedom of the press in America is preferable to the ownership of the whole press by one ruling party; 3) that people should not be jailed for their opinions. both communist and anti-communist - 4), that racial criteria, in favour of either whites or blacks, are inadvisable in admission to Universities; 5 ) that torture is condemnable, no matter who applies it. (Roughly speaking "fascist" was the same as "liberal".) Fascist was, by definition, a person who happened to have been in jail in a communist country. The refugees from Czechoslovakia in 1968 were sometimes met in Germany by very progressive and absolutely revolutionary leftists with placards saying "fascism will not pass".
“If you scratch a Conservative, you find a Fascist.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the London Young Liberal Federation in the National Liberal Club (5 January 1925), quoted in John Campbell, Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness, 1922–1931 (1977), p. 109
Leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons
Giovanni Gentile (1875–1944) Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher and politician
“The Philosophy of Fascism,” first published in English in the Spectator, November 1928, pp. 36-37. Reprinted in Origins and Doctrine of Fascism, A. James Gregor, translator and editor, Transaction Publishers (2003) p. 33
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
Hard Headed Woman
Song lyrics, Tea for the Tillerman (1970)
A. James Gregor (1929–2019) American political scientist
Source: The Ideology of Fascism: The Rationale of Totalitarianism, (1969), p. 296
Henry A. Wallace (1888–1965) Vice President of the United States
" The Danger of American Fascism http://newdeal.feri.org/wallace/haw23.htm," in New York Times, April 9, 1944. Quoted in: Democracy Reborn (New York, 1944) p. 259.