Edward Dmytryk Quotes

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

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

I have taken an oath in my heart to oppose communism until the day I die.

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

If a free society is ever destroyed in America, it will be done in the name of one particular vision of liberty and freedom.

The free society tolerates those within it who would use that freedom to destroy it.

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

A free People will be showing that they are so, by their Freedom of Speech

Speech has never defeated fascism.

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

There are people I know who love President Trump and think that he's the greatest thing that's ever happened to America. I understand those people. I'm not shocked by them. I defend their right to love him. But I do think character and rhetoric matter.

Even if the country is run by a Mussolini, free speech will find its way.

My grandfather wanted to remind us that freedom of expression is the fundamental ingredient for democracy, and all the rest is detail. It is the scaffolding around which every other freedom is based.

Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.

I hate extremes of any kind. Communism [seeks] the domination of the state over the individual... All my life I have stood against banning Communism or other extremist organisations because, if you do that, they go underground and it gives them an excitement that they don't get if they are allowed to pursue their policies openly. We'll beat them into the ground on argument...

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

Americans who value freedom had better be more concerned about the gun control crowd than the criminals. The criminals want your money. The Neo-Totalitarians want your freedom.

The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!

The worst way to defend our freedom is to let our leaders start taking away our freedoms! It is exactly during times like these [a national crisis] that we need more freedom of speech, a strong and critical press, and a citizenry that is not afraid to stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes.

Conservatives are giving up on democracy because it's not efficient. They want an autocratic regime.