Umberto Eco: (Ur-Fascism) depends on the cult of action for action's sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering's alleged statement ("When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun") to the frequent use of such expressions as "degenerate intellectuals," "eggheads," "effete snobs," "universities are a nest of reds." The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5283
Umberto Eco: At the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia. But the plot must also come from the inside: Jews are usually the best target because they have the advantage of being at the same time inside and outside. In the US, a prominent instance of the plot obsession is to be found in Pat Robertson's The New World Order, but, as we have recently seen, there are many others. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5284
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Umberto Eco: The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5285
Umberto Eco: Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology, insofar as it is fundamentally aristocratic, and aristocratic and militaristic elitism cruelly implies contempt for the weak. Ur-Fascism can only advocate a popular elitism. Every citizen belongs to the best people of the world, the members of the party are the best among the citizens, every citizen can (or ought to) become a member of the party. But there cannot be patricians without plebeians. In fact, the Leader, knowing that his power was not delegated to him democratically but was conquered by force, also knows that his force is based upon the weakness of the masses; they are so weak as to need and deserve a ruler. Since the group is hierarchically organized (according to a military model), every subordinate leader despises his own underlings, and each of them despises his inferiors. This reinforces the sense of mass elitism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5286
Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view—one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5287
Margaret Thatcher: Nelson Mandela is a terrorist. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5288
Malcolm Reynolds: You think following the rules will buy you a nice life, even if the rules make you a slave. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5289
Rachel Corrie: I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5290
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Fidel Castro: Our country does not drop bombs on other people, nor does it send thousands of planes to bomb cities. Instead our country sends doctors to those most lost corners of the world. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5291
Enver Hoxha: It is not consciousness that determines being but it is being that determines consciousness. Looking at the question from this Marxist-Leninist angle we can understand the magnitude, variety, as well as the difficulties of the leading role of the Party in the tempering of consciousness, of consciousness as a direct derivative of the struggle and the efforts of our people. From this stems the great role which literature and the arts should play in the inculcation and development of this consciousness, closely linked with the period we are going through, with the efforts, the struggles for the construction of socialism, with the struggle on a world scale against imperialism, the bourgeois ideology and its variant, modern revisionism, etc. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5292
Charles de Gaulle: Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5293
Thomas Draxe: The more noble, the more humble. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5294
Joseph Goebbels: We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5295
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Joseph Goebbels: He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5296
Joseph Goebbels: I am only the instrument that God uses to sing his song. I am only the vessel that nature smilingly fills with new wine. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5297
Joseph Goebbels: While National Socialism brought about a new version and formulation of European culture, Bolshevism is the declaration of war by Jewish-led international subhumans against culture itself. It is not only anti-bourgeois, it is anti-cultural. It means, in the final consequence, the absolute destruction of all economic, social, state, cultural, and civilizing advances made by western civilization for the benefit of a rootless and nomadic international clique of conspirators, who have found their representation in Jewry. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5298
Fyodor Dostoevsky: The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5299
L.R. Knost: It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5300
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Fernando Pessoa: I have found out that reading is a slavish sort of dreaming. If I must dream, why not my own dreams? https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5301
Fernando Pessoa: Contradiction is the essence of the universe. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5302
Fernando Pessoa: We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept – our own selves – that we love. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5303
Fernando Pessoa: Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5304
Tariq Ali: The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5305
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Tariq Ali: This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5306
Tariq Ali: The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5307
Tariq Ali: I think another crisis, which is being predicted now and which will be worse than what we saw in 2008, could bring the European Union down unless there are huge reforms from within to democratize, to give more power to the regions, etc. If this doesn't happen, the European Union will fall. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5308
Tariq Ali: One cannot discuss Europe without understanding US imperial hegemony, both globally and certainly in Europe as it stands. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5309
Tariq Ali: In the West, since the collapse of communism and the fall of the Soviet Union, the one discipline both the official and unofficial cultures have united in casting aside has been history. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5310
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Tariq Ali: During the Gulf War, journalists used to challenge government news managers and insisted they wouldn't just accept the official version of events. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5311
Tariq Ali: I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5312
Tariq Ali: The European Union is a union of the extreme center. It's a banker's union. You see how they operate in country after country, appointing technocrats to take over and run countries for long periods. They did it in Greece; they did it in Italy; they considered it in other parts of Europe. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5313
Tariq Ali: The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus for financial capitalism and to ease the road for that capitalism. The other functions just irritate everyone: it's undemocratic; decisions are not made by parliament; the European Parliament is not sovereign. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5314
Werner Sombart: The name of Rothschild means more than the firm. It means ALL JEWDOM SO FAR AS THE STOCK EXCHANGE is concerned; for only with the help of compatriots could the Rothschilds have reached their position of power — which dominates all others and obtain ENTIRE MASTERY OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE. In order to obtain command of the stock exchange and the money market all possible means were utilized. The Rothschilds practiced stock jobbing in the narrower sense which the French attach to the word. They employed the expedient of artificially influencing the market by creating a favorable atmosphere. The capitalist movement reached its highest point in the speculation banks. By means of loaning speculative securities, banks are placed in a position, by acquiring other securities at a cheap price, to create the impression that money is plentiful and is accompanied by a desire to buy. Thus power of creating an upward movement in prices is easily acquired — and this power can be reversed just as easily to depress prices by depreciating the store of available securities. The great banks, accordingly, hold the handle which controls the machine called the stock exchange. And the heads of the banks tend more and more TO BECOME ENTIRE MASTERS OF ECONOMIC LIFE. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5315
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