Alex Comfort Quotes
Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.
Comfort, Alex. Art and Social Responsibility: Lectures on the Ideology of Romanticism. Falcon Press, 1946, p. 83.
Mrs. Lincoln was a compulsive shopper and spender. Her comment to a friend provides insight into the demands and mores of the presidency of the time.
Prior to Germany Declaring War on the United States, there was a small but influential group of American Fascists who were great admirers of Hitler and Mussolini and the “reforms” they had made in Germany and Italy. They saw Germany’s invasion of other European nations as a good think to “reform” Europe. The opposed American support of England and U. S. entry into the war. Their influence waned after Pearl Harbor and Germany declaring war on the U. S. Many of them arose again after WWII ended but they no longer expressed admiration for Hitler and Mussolini—concentrating at that time on anti-communisim. This caused some difficulties for the majority of anti communists who were also anti fascists.
Alexander Comfort was a British scientist and physician known best for his nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex (1972). He was an author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, and conscientious objector.
