Suppression of Opposition Quotes

Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion.

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

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent

It cannot be denied that Fascism and similar movements aiming at the establishment of dictatorships are full of the best intentions and that their intervention has, for the moment, saved European civilization. The merit that Fascism has thereby won for itself will live on eternally in history.

In Fascism the State is not a night-watchman, only occupied with the personal safety of the citizens.

Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.

Intolerance of dissent is a well-noted feature of the American national character.

There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there are more. Well - there are hundreds of thousands of people who haven't had a fair trial, who are victims of the political system. But in the Amnesty International sense of the word, most of them are not political prisoners because they are not going to prison for protesting.

In many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished edifice of American Progressivism--is in fact a descendant and manifestation of fascism.

To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to preempt anything that looks like an alternative or a social movement is destroying capitalism.

We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.