Fascism

• "Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism."
  • Benito Mussolini

• "Almost any English person would accept bully as a synonym for fascist."
  • George Orwell

• "Any attempt to codify musical reality into a kind of imitation grammar (I refer mainly to the efforts associated with the Twelve-Tone System) is a brand of fetishism which shares with Fascism and racism the tendency to reduce live processes to immobile, labeled objects, the tendency to deal with formalities rather than substance. Claude Levi-Strauss describes (though to illustrate a different point) a captain at sea, his ship reduced to a frail raft without sails, who, by enforcing a meticulous protocol on his crew, is able to distract them from nostalgia for a safe harbor and from the desire for a destination."
  • quoted in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music, ISBN 0028645812

• "When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag"
  • Senator Huey Long

• "I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either."
  • Edward Zehr

• "Facism is not defined by the number of its victims but by the way it kills them."
  • Jean-Paul Sartre

• "Facism is capitalism plus murder."
  • Upton Sinclair