Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

I've always been very interested in political violence. When I finished high school, I did a small dissertation about political violence and fascism in Italy.

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

Well-intentioned liberalism always leads to progressivism. There's no choice there. Once that action is taken the only thing you can run on is totalitarianism - you have no choice.

Left-wingers and right-wingers come together when they become extreme enough. The Nazi Party was called National Socialism, very similar to Stalin's Communism, with the addition of 'the Fatherland.'

I believe the regressive Left - the group of people who use illiberal tactics to silence those defending liberal principles - to be the Left's version of the Tea Party.

We don't have an appreciable American left any more in the United States. What I saw of the SDS in the '60s was very abhorrent to me: Marxism, Leninism, almost the KGB mentality - a police politics that I found completely totalitarian in nature.

A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But they also exist in France - just think of Le Pen - and even in Finland and Sweden.

Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

I categorically deny that. The American left today as I know it - and believe me, I am very familiar with the American left - is going toward authoritarianism, toward totalitarianism. It's becoming the real right in the United States.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

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

A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it.

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.

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.

Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

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.

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

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

No, I do not identify with the right wing.