In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

For some reason, all the best matadors were Fascists.

This machine kills fascists.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

[Writers] are feared by every tyrant — who shows his fear by burning the books and destroying the individuals.

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart.

Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Give me a few lines written by any man and I will find enough to get him hung” goes the saying attributed to Richelieu, Voltaire, Talleyrand (a vicious censor during the French revolution phase of terror), and a few others.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

fascism comes only when the working class shows complete incapacity to take into its own hands the fate of society.

Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress.