"But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the……" — John T. Flynn
"But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil men or evil peoples, but by quite ordinary men in search of an answer to the baffling problems that beset every society. Nothing could have been further from the minds of most of them than the final brutish and obscene result. The gangster comes upon the stage only when the scene has been made ready for him by his blundering precursors."
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John T. Flynn
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28 Quotes by John T. Flynn
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Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control…
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No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless…
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The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these…
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At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic…
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But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.
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Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
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Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.
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I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril…
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The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of…
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The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the…
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When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of…
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In different countries the basis of resistance takes different forms, but it comes chiefly from the conservative groups. Hence it…
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
— George Carlin
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
— Louis Untermeyer
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
— George Arnold
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
— William Shakespeare
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
— Tom Robbins
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