Joseph Brodsky Quotes

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very slowly led down the road to fanaticism and mass murder.

a jackbooted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.

Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

Fascism is a religious concept.

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.

Fascism means war.

... immoral, evil and a demagogue.

A fascist helping defeatism

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. We are filled with disgust.