Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator®

Délibérément – lisez Mein Kampf et les conversations avec Rauschning – l’hitlérisme refuse à ses foules tout accès au vrai. Il remplace la persuasion par la suggestion émotive. Pour nous, il nous faut choisir : ou faire, à notre tour, de notre peuple un clavier qui vibre, aveuglément, au magnétisme de quelques chefs (mais lesquels ? ceux de l’heure

‘Fascism is above all a form of perversion of innocence, and thus of childhood. For me, Fascism represents in some ways the death of the soul.’87

The men who rush into undertakings of vast change usually feel they are in possession of some irresistible power. The generation that made the French Revolution had an extravagant conception of the omnipotence of man’s reason and the boundless range of his intelligence. Never, says de Tocqueville, had humanity been prouder of itself nor had it ever

On gaining power: They soon begin to rid themselves of their chief helpers, "discovering" that those who brought about the new order have suddenly become traitors to it. They suppress criticism on one pretext or another and punish anyone who mentions facts which, however true, are unfavourable to their policy. They enlist religion on thei