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Unity, in Fascist terms, means uniformity; freedom of conscience means insubordination; co-ordination means coercion.

— Dorothy Thompson Let the Record Speak (1939)

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No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

Let the Record Speak (1939)

Patriotism is the cheapest form of self-exaltation.

I Saw Hitler (1932)

A slave has no morality, because he cannot choose between good and evil. He has only a derivative morality—that of his masters.

Dorothy Thompson's Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state.

Benito Mussolini

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian Personality (1950)

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