Awful Quote by Michel Leiris Download Open image “Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe.” — Michel Leiris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Awful Fascism Saws
The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“When we speak about fascism, we must not drift too far away from thinking about the people who collected the hair, the gold teeth,… — Mark Bray Copy Share Image
“Why are you so afraid of the word ‘Fascism,’ Doremus? Just a word—just a word! And might not be so bad, with all the… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“The shells the Fascists were firing at this period were wretchedly bad. Although they were 150 mm they only made a crater about six… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Fascism was not simply a conspiracy—although it was that—but it was something that came to life in the course of a powerful social development.… — Theodor W. Adorno Copy Share Image
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… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...” — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“Always beneath or above concrete events, I remain a prisoner of this alternative: the world as a real object that dominates me and devours… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
I am imbued with the notion that a Muse is necessarily a dead woman, inaccessible or absent; that a poetic structure - like the… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“Midway between the too soiled ground and the too-sublime vaults, at the level of the air, entering the skin of the role, poetry plays… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“And the beautiful lady, still with her beautiful wasp’s waist, the very beautiful lady whose charms buzz around our childish dreams, will not turn… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“When the human voice is reduced to being no longer a song, a word, or a cry, but the articulation of the unnamable itself,… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“at man’s height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come to life,… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought” — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality. — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“Pessimism is a towering skyscraper eighty stories high in the suburbs of the soul at the end of a long avenue with waste ground… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
“…It was this white garment of mourning which he still wore, the white mourning of surgical gowns so much more significant than black, since… — Michel Leiris Copy Share Image
It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be… — Declan Shalvey Copy Share Image
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
No one with a bad tie is getting my vote. Some Lib Dems wear the most shockingly awful ties. — Freddie Fox Copy Share Image
The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image