John T. Flynn famous quotes

07-18-2025

But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil men or evil peoples, but by quite ordinary men in search of an answer to the baffling problems that beset every society. Nothing could have been further from the minds of most of them than the final brutish and obscene result. The gangster comes upon the stage only when the scene has been made ready for him by his blundering precursors.
-- John T. Flynn

#Dark #Men #Evil
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
-- John T. Flynn

#War #Gmos #Firsts
When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the state was forced to check the extension of bureaucracy and to put a stop to public works, then and then only did the Italians realize what it meant to have allowed themselves to be made one of the most heavily taxed nations in the world.
-- John T. Flynn

#Government #World #Dry
In different countries the basis of resistance takes different forms, but it comes chiefly from the conservative groups. Hence it becomes increasingly difficult to go on spending in the presence of persisting deficits and rising debt. Some form of spending must be found that will command the support of the conservative groups. Political leaders, embarrassed by their subsidies to the poor, soon learned that one of the easiest ways to spend money is on military establishments and armaments, because it commands the support of the groups most opposed to spending.
-- John T. Flynn

#Country #Military #Support
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
-- John T. Flynn

#America #Association #Nra
These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.
-- John T. Flynn

#Quality #Etc #Nra
This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning.
-- John T. Flynn

#Enemy #Planning #Mask
The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.
-- John T. Flynn

#Dream #Lines #Dictator
We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
-- John T. Flynn

#Long #Today #Way
We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia.
-- John T. Flynn

#Europe #Decision #United States
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution.
-- John T. Flynn

#Keys #Order #Unions
The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.
-- John T. Flynn

#Victory #Groups #Dollars
The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.
-- John T. Flynn

#Peace #Moving Forward #Destiny
Imperialism is an institution under which one nation asserts the right to seize the land or at least to control the government or resources of another people.
-- John T. Flynn

#War #Government #Land
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be no lack of poets and preachers and essayists and philosophers to invent the necessary reasons and gild the infamy with righteousness. To this righteousness there is, of course, never an adequate reply. Thus a war to end poverty becomes an unanswerable enterprise. For who can decently be for poverty? To even debate whether the war will end poverty becomes an exhibition of ugly pragmatism and the sign of an ignoble mind.
-- John T. Flynn

#War #Mind #Black
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war. The greatest hero is the one who kills the most people. Glamorous exploits in successful lying and mass stealing and heroic vengeance are rewarded with decorations and public acclaim.
-- John T. Flynn

#Christian #Strong #War
At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.
-- John T. Flynn

#Running #Russia #Hands
But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.
-- John T. Flynn

#Form #Fascism
Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
-- John T. Flynn

#Results #Fascism #Dictatorship
Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.
-- John T. Flynn

#Hands #Fascism
I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country.
-- John T. Flynn

#Country #Thinking #Unions
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
-- John T. Flynn

#Political #Vitality #Praise

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