History Quotes / FascistButInefficient

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. And then remember this. The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.\\ And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.\\ Remember this. [[DareToBeBadass Try.]]

-->-- '''Hastet''', ''[[Literature/TheCityOfBrass The Kingdom of Copper]]''

->''I just think we're the first society in history to be ruled by incompetent fascists. Fascists, they're normally pretty organised, we're going to be going to the death camps in a replacement bus service.

-->-- '''Creator/FrankieBoyle'', ''Series/TheLastLeg''

-->-- ''[[VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope The New Order: Last Days of Europe]]''

-->-- '''[[VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope The New Order: Last Days of Europe]]'''

-->''We lacked self-control. We recognized no limits. Otherwise [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Reich]] would have lasted more than 4 decades.''

--->''We lacked self-control. We recognized no limits. Otherwise [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Reich]] would have lasted more than 4 decades.''
--->-- '''[[VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope The New Order: Last Days of Europe]]'''

-->''We lacked self-control. We recognized no limits. Otherwise [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Reich]] would have lasted more than 4 decades.''
-->-- '''[[VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope The New Order: Last Days of Europe]]'''

->''We lacked self control. We recognized no limits. Otherwise [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Reich]] would have lasted more than 4 decades.''

-->-- '''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'''

->Efficiency, even military efficiency, [[ExploitedTrope is no longer needed]]. Nothing is efficient in [[{{Dystopia}} Oceania]] except the [[SecretPolice Thought Police]].

-->--''Lyrics to'' '''[[ComicBook/VforVendetta This Vicious Cabaret]]'''

-->-- UsefulNotes/ThomasMore, Literature/{{Utopia}}

->''Sex and death and human grime,''\\

''but they don't go anywhere.''

-> "I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished; for if a robber sees that his danger is the same if he is convicted of theft as if he were guilty of murder, this will naturally incite him to kill the person whom otherwise he would only have robbed; since, if the punishment is the same, there is more security, and less danger of discovery, when he that can best make it is put out of the way; so that terrifying thieves too much provokes them to cruelty."

-> Those forgiven Death Eaters were all from wealthy and influential families, or were closely allied with them. Money and/or favours had to change hands for that many people to drop the ball and let them go free. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. Look at my godfather, and the Ministry's complete failure to give him a trial while he rotted in Azkaban – for a crime he never committed. Look at the goblins, treated as second-class citizens, despite the vital role they play in the Wizarding economy. Look at house-elves, who are treated even worse. Sometimes I wonder if the Statute of Secrecy isn't maintained more to prevent the Ministry from being scrutinized too closely by the Muggle governments. By Muggle standards, I'm afraid the Wizarding world would be considered hopelessly backward and barbaric.
-->-- '''Harry''', ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheNightmaresOfFuturesPast'': [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2636963/31/Harry-Potter-and-the-Nightmares-of-Futures-Past Chapter 31]]

-->-- Creator/ThomasMore, {{Utopia}}

-->-- Creator/ThomasMore, {{Utopia}}

-->--''Lyrics to'' '''[[ComicBook/VforVendetta This Vicious Cabaret]]'''

''But at least the trains all run on time''\\

-->--''Lyrics to'' '''[[ComicBook/VforVendetta This Vicious Caberet]]'''

-->--''Lyrics to'' '''[[VforVendetta This Vicious Caberet]]'''