Quote by Stanley G. Payne

“Looking for fears, indeed, may be a more fruitful research strategy than a literal-minded quest for thinkers who “created” fascism.”

— Robert O. Paxton

Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.

— Bill Nighy

“Some authors have argued that a direct historical line can be drawn to Nazism from the French Revolution of 1789, the Jacobin 'Reign of…

— Richard J. Evans

Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic…

— Anthony Eden

“It was not anti-Semitism or socialism or the New Order that first animated the Nazis; their first slogal was, "Break the chains of Versailles.”

— Milton Mayer

“In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.”

— Raymond Aron

“Mae Brussell began to study the pattern of Nazis coming to the United States after World War Two and patterns of murders identical to…

— Mae Brussell

“Rationality did not stop the Fascists or the Nazis.”

— Mark Bray

“We were never more free than during the German occupation. We had lost all our rights, beginning with the right to talk. Every day…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Fascism and Nazism emerged as emotional, antirational appeals grounded in masculine promises of renewed national vigor.”

— Mark Bray

“An authentically popular American fascism would be pious, antiblack, and, since September 11, 2001, anti-Islamic as well.”98 Are we on the road to fascism?”

— John W. Dean

“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