Erica Jong Quotes

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.

Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.

There have been … totalitarian forces in our lifetime: The totalitarianism of fascism and now of capitalism.

Nowadays, we seldom remember that the totalitarianism that emerged early this century was thought to embody, above all, modernity and technology.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

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.

Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

Every woman adores a Fascist.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.