Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes

Fascism is a religious concept.

Moderates behind whom Red Fascism spreads.

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.

Anti-Americanism is a form of Fascism.

The nationalist right and the nebulously but fervently revolutionary left found each other once more in Fascism with its double face of conservatism and subversion.

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.'

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

If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.

Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.

There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

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 one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

We are at the crossroads. One road leads toward fascism, the other towards Communism. I take the road to fascism.

… semi-Fascists

To some Americans, Fascism represented the wave of the future

There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.

If you know anything, deny, deny, deny. I want to save Fascism.

The fusion of elements united solely by a faith in violence--the lack of a precise political and moral program--the fact that most of the enthusiastic rank and file of Fascism boasted of impersonating "dynamic action" and not doctrinally defined principles--all combined to create a situation in which the Fascist movement evolved quickly, and without the knowledge of the majority of its followers, into an instrument of reaction.