Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch. 16 <!-- p 208-->
'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
Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls
Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ch. 16 <!-- p 208-->
“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".
“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
Hovhannes Bagramyan (1897–1982) Soviet military commander
Quoted in "I. C. Bagramyan: A Photo Album About A Soviet Marshal" - Yerevan - 1987
Günter Reimann (1904–2005) German economist
Source: The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, 2014, p. 24
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
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Il costume di casa (1973); as translated in Travels in Hyperreality (1986)
Context: Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes. The day after the fall of Khrushchev, the editors of Pravda, Izvestiia, the heads of the radio and television were replaced; the army wasn't called out. Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.
Rolf Potts (1970) American writer
Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservative political commentator
August 1981 direct mail to supporters of his Old Time Gospel Hour show, quoted in [2007-05-19, The Legacy of Falwell's Bully Pulpit, Hans Johnson, William Eskridge, The Washington Post, 0190-8286, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/18/AR2007051801392.html]