Ezra Pound Quotes

We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.

I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.

The menace is ideology, the dogma of politics. It is a prison that makes the American experiment impossible.

The time has come for you to decide whether Italians shall die for Mussolini and Hitler, or live for Italy and for civilization.

Mussolini has been appointed Prime Minister by the King of Italy. This may turn out to be a black day for Italy and Europe.

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

The spectacle which confronts all Europe today is a great conflict between democracy and dictatorship.

There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.

We'll never join up with the Fascists and Mussolinis of Italy.

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

I mean, I'm not a, you know, a fraidy cat. I mean, I am truly concerned in this country that we are moving towards fascism.

Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism.

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism –-- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

If a free society is ever destroyed in America, it will be done in the name of one particular vision of liberty and freedom.

Hitler has become Chancellor… It’s like a fairy tale come true.

There have been … totalitarian forces in our lifetime: The totalitarianism of fascism and now of capitalism.