Frank Rich Quotes

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Either you were opposed to the growth of Fascism and went out to fight against it, or you acquiesced in its crimes and permitted its growth.

… the unfortunate but inevitable connection between the word “socialism” and the unmitigated crucifixion of Civil Liberties in the East [Eastern Europe dominated by the Russian Communist Party.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible.

Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts. Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

Fascists are not human. A snake is more human.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.