Terry Pratchett Quotes

Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.

Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

That is one of the characteristics of fascism, the idea that the state can provide all of the answers for everyone.

There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.

It can't happen here is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.

... I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.

If the communist party is controlling China, they represent China.

Russia is classic fascism.

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers … call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Oppressive government is more terrible than tigers.

Socialists should be delighted to find at last a socialist (Mussolini) who speaks and thinks as responsible rulers do

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say "But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time.

There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech," I said.

I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism.