All Quotes

"Fascists were not conservative in any very meaningful sense...The Fascists, in a meaningful sense, were revolutionaries... [F]ascism and communism are clearly more like each other than they are like anything in between."

"Hitler tried and failed to begin a German national revolution in Munich in November 1923, which led to a brief spell in prison. Though the substance of his National Socialism was his own creation, his coup d’état was inspired by the success of the Italian fascists he admired. Benito Mussolini had taken power in Italy the previous year after the “March on Rome,” which Hitler imitated without success in Munich. Italian fascists, like Hitler and his Nazis, offered the glorification of the national will over the tedium of political compromise. Mussolini, and Hitler following him, used the existence of the Soviet Union within domestic politics. While admiring the discipline of Lenin and the model of the one-party state, both men used the threat of a communist revolution as an argument for their own rule. Though the two men differed in many respects, they both represented a new kind of European Right, one which took for granted that communism was the great enemy while imitating aspects of communist politics. Like Mussolini, Hitler was an outstanding orator and the one dominant personality in his movement. Hitler had little trouble regaining the leadership of the Nazi party after his release from prison in December 1924."

"Although Ilyin dressed up his idea of contemplation in several books, it really was no more than that: he saw his own nation as righteous, and the purity of that vision was more important than anything Russians actually did. The nation, “pure and objective,” was what the philosopher saw when he blinded himself. Innocence took a specific biological form. What Ilyin saw was a virginal Russian body. Like fascists and other authoritarians of his day, Ilyin insisted that his nation was a creature, "an organism of nature and the soul," an animal in Eden without original sin. Who belonged within the Russian organism was not for the individual to decide, since cells do not decide whether they belong to a body. Russian culture, Ilyin wrote, automatically brought “fraternal union” wherever Russian power extended. Ilyin wrote of "" in quotation marks, because he denied their separate existence beyond the Russian organism. To speak of Ukraine was to be a mortal enemy of Russia. Ilyin took for granted that a post-Soviet Russia would include Ukraine."

"Fascism is the falsehood that the enemy chosen by a leader must be the enemy for all. Politics then begins from emotion and falsehood. Peace becomes unthinkable, since enmity abroad is necessary for control at home. A fascist says "the people" and means "some people," those he favors at the moment."

"The symbol Z, the rallies, the propaganda, the war as a cleansing act of violence and the death pits around Ukrainian towns make it all very plain. The war against Ukraine is not only a return to the traditional fascist battleground, but also a return to traditional fascist language and practice. Other people are there to be colonized. Russia is innocent because of its ancient past. The existence of Ukraine is an international conspiracy. War is the answer."

"Today people commonly use the word "fascism" instead of "national socialism." Presumably this is what you are asking. No. Hitlerism had racism as its essential dogmatic foundation. But in a multiethnic country, such an ideology has no chance of success. And Russia has never had such a movement. But if we speak about the rampage of militant chauvinism, then it exists--and in bloody form--in several republics of the former U.S.S.R., but certainly not in Russia. And if one were to count all the instances of violence perpetrated on nationalist grounds and in local wars, all of them took place outside of Russia and were not perpetrated by Russians."

"Fascism began as a revision of Marxism by Marxists, a revision which developed in successive stages, so that these Marxists gradually stopped thinking of themselves as Marxists, and eventually stopped thinking of themselves as socialists. They never stopped thinking of themselves as anti-liberal revolutionaries."

"If the Fascist ideology cannot be described as a simple response to Marxism, its origins, on the other hand, were the direct result of very specific revision of Marxism. It was a revision of Marxism and not a variety of Marxism or a consequence of Marxism... It was the French and Italian Sorelians, the theoreticians of revolutionary who made this new and original revision of Marxism, and precisely this was their contribution to the birth of the Fascist ideology."

"Fascism rebelled against modernity inasmuch as modernity was identified with the rationalism, optimism, and humanism of the eighteenth century, but it was not a reactionary or an anti-revolutionary movement in the Maurrassian sense of the term. Fascism presented itself as a revolution of another kind, a revolution that sought to destroy the existing political order and to uproot its theoretical and moral foundations but that at the same time wished to preserve all the achievements of modern technology."

"That is why so many Sorelians, like many people on the Left both before and after the war, slid into fascism. When these leftists of all shapes and colors came to the conclusion that the working class had definitely beaten a retreat, they did not follow it into this attitude. Their socialism remained revolutionary when that of the proletariat had ceased to be so. Having to choose between the proletariat and revolution, they chose revolution; having to choose between a proletarian but moderate socialism and a nonproletarian but revolutionary and national socialism, they opted for the nonproletarian revolution, the national revolution."

"Thus, it was quite natural that a synthesis would arise between this new socialism [fascism], which discovered the nation as a revolutionary agent, and the nationalist movement, which also rebelled against the old world of conservatives, against the aristocrats and the bourgeois, and against social injustices and which believed that the nation would never be complete until it had integrated the proletariat. A socialism for the whole collectivity and a nationalism that, severed from conservatism, proclaimed itself as being by definition the messenger of unity and unanimity thus came together to form an unprecedented weapon of war against the bourgeois order and liberal democracy."

"Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom as great — You have no power over me."

"You really wanted to talk to me, didn't you? Practically broke down the door."

"Someone has been in my room again. I hate that. I hate it!"

"Someone save me, someone take me away from this awful place!"

"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young girl whose stepmother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoiled child, and wanted everything for himself, and the young girl was practically a slave. But what no one knew is that the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl, and he had given her certain powers. So one night, when the baby had been particularly cruel to her, she called on the goblins for help! "Say your right words," the goblins said, "and we'll take the baby to the Goblin City. And you will be free." But the girl knew that the king would keep the baby in his castle for ever and ever and ever, and turn it into a goblin."

"I can bear it no longer! Goblin King! Goblin King! Wherever you may be, take this child of mine far away from me!"

"I wish the goblins would come and take you away, right now."

"I have to face him alone... because that's the way it's done."

"In nine hours and twenty-three minutes... you'll be mine!"

"I think I'll call him Jareth. He's got my eyes."

"Stepmother: She treats me like a wicked stepmother in a fairy story, no matter what I say."

"Hoggle: The Cleaners, the Bog of Stench—you sure got his attention!"

"Hoggle: Let's get that rat who calls himself Jareth!"

"Bird Hat: It is so stimulating being your hat!"

"Goblin: Your mother is a fraggin' aardvark!"

"Goblin Cannonball: I hit zumzing? Yes? No?"

"Fiery: It's against the rules to throw other people's heads."

"Didymus: You're going the wrong way! The battle's BEHIND us!"

"Didymus: [as Ambrosius charges out of the gates] AMBROSIUS, if you don't turn around this second, I WILL NEVER FEED YOU AGAIN! [a screeching sound is heard and Ambrosius comes back inside] That's better! Don't worry, Ambrosius, I think we have them surrounded! [looks at the goblins surrounding him] Now, if you throw down your weapons, I'll see that you're well treated!"

"No one can blame you for walking away, but too much rejection nah nah, no love injection, nah nah. Life can't be easy, it’s not always swell. (Underground)"

"Don't tell me truth hurts, little girl, 'cause it hurts like hell. (Underground)"

"But down in the Underground, you'll find someone true. Down in the underground, a land serene, a crystal moon... ahh ahh. It’s only forever, not long at all. The lost and the lonely, that’s underground, underground. (Underground)"

"You remind me of the babe (what babe?) the babe with the power (what power?) the power of voodoo (who do?) you do (do what?) remind me of the babe! (Magic Dance)"

"Slap that baby, make him free! (Magic Dance)"

"Good times, bad food... (Chilly Down)"

"There's such a sad love deep in your eyes, a kind of pale jewel, opened and closed within your eyes, I'll place the sky within your eyes... (As the World Falls Down)"

"I'll paint you mornings of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings... (As the World Falls Down)"

"Everything I've done, I've done for you. I move the stars for no one. (Within You)"

"Your eyes can be so cruel, just as I can be so cruel... (Within You)"

"Live without the sunlight. Love without your heartbeat. I... I can't live within you. (Within You)"

"Where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems."

"Where anything is possible."

"David Bowie — Jareth the Goblin King"

"Jennifer Connelly — Sarah Williams"

"Toby Froud — Toby"

"Shelley Thompson — Stepmother"

"Christopher Malcolm — Father"

"Shari Weiser - Hoggle"

"Brian Henson — Hoggle (voice)"