Norman Mailer Quotes

People who live under fascism are not only miserable but they're full of shame. You just don't go in and inject democracy into them. They're half crazy with their own.

The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

Russia is classic fascism.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism –-- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

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 era of individualism, liberalism and democracy, of humanitarianism and freedom, is nearing its end. The masses will accept with resignation the victory of the Caesars, the strong men, and will obey them. Life will descend to a level of general uniformity, a new kind of primitivism, and the world will be better for it.....

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.

Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for a totalitarian regime, they tend to flail.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Many people in America throw the term "fascism" around, particularly for Middle-Eastern terrorists, but in fact what fascism really is is a close alliance between a unitary executive and a state and large corporations and a state.

The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

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

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

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

By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.