History Quotes / GodwinsLaw

->''{{ComicBook/Lois|Lane}} also calls ComicBook/LexLuthor a fascist. Good grief...Fascists burn people in ovens and take over countries. Lex, if anything, is a lasseiz-faire businessman with questionable ethics who once tortured [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} a semi-aquatic superhero]] that anyone with any respect for what such cheesy characters do to the comic genre [[TakeThatScrappy might have tortured as well.']]'

[[folder: Music]]

->"My friend said to me, 'So, you're saying, if you saw Hitler walking down the street, you wouldn't kill him?' ... Who kinda, sorta, looks like Hilter? Based on my vague recollection from grade school? I'm not gonna kill ''that'' guy! Because I am often wrong! 'What did you just do?!' 'I killed that guy! He looked like Hitler! A little!'"

'''Calvin: Jawohl, mein Führer!

->''Moriarty doesn’t like legalized abortion, and he doesn’t like despotism, so therefore legalized abortion is despotism...and the evidence Obama is a Marxist? Well, Moriarty doesn’t like Obama and he doesn’t like Marxism, therefore … you know how it goes.''
-->--''[[http://americanloons.blogspot.com/2014/03/965-michael-moriarty.html Encyclopedia of American Loons]]''

->''[[{{Franchise/Mario}} Mustached Euro-Anglan male]]\\

->"NAZI GERMANY? Why, that's my LEAST FAVORITE kind of Germany! You got your regular Germany, your [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Weimar Germany]], your Visigoths, your [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Hasselhoffs]], but oh, my God, Ted Cruz says we're at DEFCON NAZI!"
-->--'''''Series/TheDailyShow''''' rebuts Ted Cruz (R-TX)

->''"You're a fascist, Mr. [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Bush]]! Resign!"''
-->--'''[[Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann Keith Olbermann]]''', special comment in 2007.

->''"It's 'Six Degrees of Creator/KevinBacon', except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler."''
-->-- '''Creator/LewisBlack''' on Radio/GlennBeck

->''"NAZI GERMANY? Why, that's my LEAST FAVORITE kind of Germany! You got your regular Germany, your [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic Weimar Germany]], your Visigoths, your [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Hasselhoffs]], but oh my God, Ted Cruz says we're at '''''DEFCON NAZI!'''''"''
-->--'''''Series/TheDailyShow''''' rebuts Ted Cruz (R-TX)

->''"This week, a Georgia congressman said, ''"I'm not comparing [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]] to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is [[DistinctionWithoutADifference there's the potential of going down that road.]]"'' Well, Congressman, I'm not comparing your head to a butt-plug, but it does seem to spend a lot of time up your ass."''
-->-- '''Bill Maher''', ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher''

->''"I mean, if you want to have a gay wedding, fine, go ahead. If I don’t want to bake you a cake for your gay wedding, that’s okay too. Or should be. [[{{Newspeak}} That’s called tolerance.]] But when you try and force me to bake a cake for your gay wedding and threaten me with prison if I don’t, that’s called fascism."''
-->--'''Tucker Carlson''' on [[YouMayPanicNow gay jihadists]], ''[[Creator/FoxNewsChannel Special Report with Bret Baier]]''

'''Judge Greenspan:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Obviously you need a history lesson, sir.]]

->''"I don't wanna bring up the Holocaust — I know, I know, the Holocaust!''\\
''But the Holocaust was a really big deal!''\\
''Remember that we suffered!"''
-->-- '''[[JewishMother Naomi Bunch]]''', ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'': "Remember that we Suffered"

'''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}:''' What's that?\\

'''Dilbert:''' ''(incensed)'' Hey, I debated you last night!

'''Calvin: (clicking his heels and doing the Nazi salute)''' Jawohl, mein Führer!\\
'''Rosalyn: (grabbing Calvin by the shirt)''' [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior Care to repeat that little comment?]]\\
'''Calvin:''' I said I'm not going anywhere. Leggo.
-->-- ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', [[http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/10/09 10/9/1987]]

->Don't call people Hitler,\\

Because only Hitler was Hitler,\\
It's a pretty exclusive list.\\
And don't call people Nazis,\\
When they vote for other parties,\\
Unless you mean actual Nazis,\\
Who unfortunately do exist.

->''"I haven't used that term on this program in years. But it still gets to 'em, doesn't it? And you know why? Because it's right. Because it's accurate."''
-->--'''Radio/RushLimbaugh''' on "Feminazis" (Although he [[{{Troll}} never actually stopped]] using the term)

->''"Hitler came to power against the strong feminist movement in Germany, padlocked the family planning clinics, and declared abortion a crime against the state — all views that [[{{Hypocrite}} more closely resemble Rush Limbaugh's.]]"''
-->--'''Gloria Steinem'''

->''"My friend said to me, 'So, you're saying, if you saw Hitler walking down the street, you wouldn't kill him?' I said, that's ''not'' what I'm saying. But...okay! Let's talk about this completely different thing! So, if I saw Hitler walking down the street...first of all, are you talking, like, in full uniform, with the mustache and everything? Like, an actor? I'm not gonna kill ''that'' guy! And possibly ruin [[Franchise/IndianaJones Indiana Jones 5]]! Or, do you mean a really, ''really'' old man? Who kinda, sorta, looks like Hilter? Based on my vague recollection from grade school? I'm not gonna kill ''that'' guy! Because I am often wrong! 'What did you just do?!' 'I killed that guy! He looked like Hitler!' 'A little!'"'''
-->-- Creator/JohnMulaney

->'''Cindy Lou''': My Daddy says he won't argue the rights or wrongs of it, but that the class he was born to is the class he wants to survive.\\
'''Wickfield''': Your father is a realist.\\
'''Breed''' ''(Angrily turning on Wickfield)'': You call it Realism here. You call it Fascism over ''there!''\\
'''Wickfield''': Now, now, Madison!\\
'''Breed''': All right! We'll scrap the Appomattox Treaty--wipe out the Dixie war guilt lie--stand for the economic nationalism of the South, the right to persecute minorities. Secession again!\\
'''Wickfield''' ''(Angry again)'': Now! Now!\\
''(Breed gives the Rebel yell.)''\\
'''Breed''': That's ''Mein Kampf''! ''(Clicks heels and gives the Nazi salute to Wickfield)'' Heil Bethany! Heil the 1938 Dictatorship out of the Ku Klux Klan by the spook of Robert E. Lee! ''(Exits to terrace.)''

->'''Informant:''' General, Italian forces have entered Egypt.\\
'''General:''' As I expected. This is a foolish move by Mussolini, but like Hitler he will no doubt force his commanders to--\\

'''General:''' Dammit. ''({{beat}})'' You know, this may become a problem.

->''"Re, re, re your post,\\

Now the horse is dead"''

-->--[[http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/29/1273237/-Cartoon-Tom-Perkins-is-the-Hitler-of-making-accurate-comparisons Political cartoon]] by Matt Bors that [[InvertedTrope inverts]] the trope

->''"...I think he might be overselling things just a little bit here when he gets around to comparing kids who play video games to the twenty people who were executed for witchcraft in 1692. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll agree that it’s the same kind of fearmongering, but I’m reasonably sure that no one in Ohio was crushed to death under a pile of stones for refusing to admit that they bought ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto''.\\\
Then again, it just wouldn’t be ''Funky Winkerbean'' without a conversation [[TheEeyore turning inevitably to historical murder.]]"''

->''"Lois also calls ComicBook/LexLuthor a fascist. Good grief...I have [[WithFriendsLikeThese FRIENDS]], best buddies, who have done stuff worse to me than Lex has, and I wouldn't call them fascists. Fascists burn people in ovens and take over countries. Lex, if anything, is a lasseiz-faire businessman with questionable ethics who once tortured [[ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} a semi-aquatic superhero]] that anyone with any respect for what such cheesy characters do to the comic genre might have tortured as well."''

->''"[[Music/KanyeWest Kanye]] doesn’t compare the paparazzi to Hitler, but he does say that being a celebrity today is like being black in the 1960s. Either I wasn’t totally paying attention during the lesson on the UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement in the 6th grade or Kanye’s brain has been switched with that of a dead sloth, because I somehow missed the part where black people were given Givenchy gowns to wear to their protests and instead of getting attacked by police dogs and beaten by racists, they had their picture taken and were asked to sign autographs. I was taught wrong!"''

->''"Moriarty doesn’t like legalized abortion, and he doesn’t like despotism, [[InsaneTrollLogic so therefore legalized abortion is despotism]]...and the evidence Obama is a Marxist? Well, Moriarty doesn’t like Obama and he doesn’t like Marxism, therefore … you know how it goes."''

->''"Oh. My. God. Jeff Tweedy IS a Nazi!! Oh crap, now I see that the people condemning him were absolutely right, he has sold us all out! I bet marrying my Jewish sister was just a ruse to further his white supremacist agenda. All that liberal twaddle he spouts at his concerts is just a front ... Dammit, that’s the last time that turncoat comes to our Yom Kippur services!"''
--> -- [[http://dannymiller.typepad.com/blog/2007/05/the_thanks_he_g.html Danny Miller]] (Tweedy's brother-in-law), in response to a thread complaining about Music/{{Wilco}} songs in VW ads.

->''"“Look at it like this. I’m Churchill. Brad ''[Torgersen]'' is FDR. We wound up on the same side as Stalin.”''
-->--'''Larry Correia''' on Vox Day

->''"How, exactly, did anyone “wind up” here? One does not simply “wind up” allied to Josef Stalin. This is a process that requires some effort. It is a process during which one is afforded many opportunities to stop and say ''“wait a moment, [[AnalogyBackfire I seem to be allying with Josef Stalin]], maybe I should reconsider my life choices.”''"''
-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2015/04/guided-by-beauty-of-their-weapons.html El Sandifer]]''', "Guided By the Beauty of Their Weapons"

->''"Hitler and the Nazis are an excellent all-purpose tool to demonize your opponents. Just compare them to Hitler! It’s easy! It’s also incredibly stupid in most cases. If you don’t believe me, just check out the last couple of times that I’ve seen anti-vaccinationists comparing their opponents to the Nazis or likening vaccine programs to the Holocaust.\\\
Yes, those two examples were really dumb, but I think I just found something even dumber. It’s an article by Hilary Butler. This time around, Ms. Butler pulls out all the stops, asking Are non vaccinators the “new Jews”? ...I’ll take ignorant historical analogies for $1,000, Alex."''
-->--'''[[http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2013/05/24/quote-antivaccinationist-hilary-butler-non-vaccinators-are-the-new-jews/ Orac]]'''

->''"You're Hitler. Don't argue with me. I know you have an overwhelming urge to invade Poland right now.'"''
-->--'''[[http://danerboots.deviantart.com/art/Your-re-Hitler-184625070 You're Hitler]]'''

->''"This goes for any debate; if you're tempted to make comparisons to Hitler or Nazis or the Holocaust, you need to stop and re-examine what you're doing."''
-->--'''A UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo moderator''', [[http://nanowrimo.org/en/forum_comments/1964969 here]].

->''Mustached Euro-Anglan male\\
Greedy big nose guy is bent on betrayal\\
Wait! Hitler's ''Mein Kampf'' told they very same tale!\\

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->''"It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, [[Creator/RudyardKipling Kipling]], [[UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi Gandhi]], UsefulNotes/ChiangKaiShek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else."''
-->--'''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', "As I Please," ''Tribune'', March 24, 1944

->''"I must tell you that a socialist policy is abhorrent to British ideas on freedom. [...] A socialist state could not afford to suffer opposition - no socialist system can be established without a political police. [...] No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They [the Labour Party] would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo."''
-->-- Prime Minister '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill''', election broadcast of 4th June 1945

->''"Whatever its claims, Queen isn't here just to entertain. This group has come to make it clear exactly who is superior and who is inferior. Its anthem, 'We Will Rock You,' is a marching order: you ''will'' not rock us, we ''will'' rock you. Indeed, Queen may be the first truly fascist rock band. The whole thing makes me wonder why anyone would [[MediaWatchdog indulge these creeps and their polluting ideas.]]"''
-->--'''Dave Marsh''', in his review of ''Jazz'' by Music/{{Queen}}, ''Rolling Stone'', Feb. 6, 1979

->''"Recent European history alone ought to cause Jewish executives to experience second thoughts about glorifying the killing of the helpless as a fun lifestyle choice."''
-->--'''Gregg Easterbrook''' reviews ''Film/KillBill''

->''"Hitler decided that it was the only empathetic thing to do, to put this child down and put him out of his suffering. It was the beginning of the T4, which led to genocide everywhere. It was the beginning of it. Empathy leads you to very bad decisions many times."''
-->--'''Radio/GlennBeck''' on UsefulNotes/BarackObama

->''"I mean, that's the morality of the Holocaust. 'Well, it's only a small percentage,' you know. 'I mean, it's not you, it's somebody else.'"''
--> -- '''Grover Norquist''', on the inheritance tax.

->''"The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply [sic] has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive our constituents]]."''
-->--Rep. '''[=Tom DeLay=]''' (R-TX)

->''"Many of those people involved in Adolph Hitler were Satanists. Many of them were homosexuals. The two things seem to go together."''
-->-- '''Pat Robertson'''.

->''"I can't imagine Arizonans now reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques whereby people are required to turn one another in to the authorities on any suspicion of documentation."''
-->--'''Cardinal Roger Mahony''' on the Arizona immigration law.

->''"When we just saw that man, I think it was [PZ Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed …that’s where ''science'' leads you. Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and [[ScienceIsBad science leads you to killing people.]]"''
-->--'''Ben Stein'''

->''"I still believe in global warming. Do '''you'''?"''
-->--'''Ted Kaczynski a.k.a. The Unabomber''', '''Charles Manson''', and '''Fidel Castro''', 2012 Heartland Institute campaign

->''"And it reminds me so much of the summer that I was an exchange student in the Soviet Union back in the Seventies and I was shocked when they were saying "no, the children don't belong to parents, they belong to the state"...It just sent chills because it took me back to the Seventies when that's what the Soviet Union used to say and we know how well that worked out."''
-->--'''Rep. Louie Gohmert''' (R-TX) on his opposition to [[YouCanPanicNow sex education]]

->''"[=AVfM=] regards [[StrawFeminist feminists]], [[CampStraight manginas]], [[NiceGuy white knights]], and other [[WeAreEverywhere agents of misandry]] as a social malignancy. We do not consider them well intentioned or honest agents for their purported goals and extend to them no more courtesy or consideration than we would clansmen ''[sic]'', skinheads, neo Nazis or other purveyors of hate.”''
-->--'''Paul Elam''', Men's Rights Activist

->''"Importantly, Hitler’s genocide was framed as a program “for the betterment of society” — the exact same words used in America today to justify forced vaccination of children."''
-->--"Health freedom" advocate '''Mike Adams'''

->''"Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it’s European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren’t committing mass murder by guillotine."''
-->--'''Ann Coulter''' on the World Cup

->''"Net Neutrality is the marxism of the tech world."''
-->--'''Milo "Nero" Yiannopoulos''', 11.13.14 Tweet

->''""It is fine to say that many of Nazism's concerns were held by people who were not Nazis. But the fact that these conventionally leftist views were held by Nazis suggests that Nazism isn't as alien to mainstream progressive thought as some would have us believe."''
-->--'''Jonah Goldberg''', on animal rights being a fascist position

->''"Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said people in America are not eating enough fruits and vegetables. They want all the power of the federal government to [[{{Unishment}} force you to eat more fruits and vegetables.]] This is what the federal CDC — They ([[YouMakeMeSic sic]]) going to be calling people and finding out how many fruits and vegetables you eat ''[sic]'' today. This is socialism of the highest order!"''
-->--Rep. '''Paul Collins Broun, Jr.''' (R-GA)

->''"As soon as you label me, or anyone, a bigot, with nothing to support such a toxic charge, you lose the argument."''
-->--'''Robert Avrech'''

->''"With George [=McGovern=] as President of the United States, we wouldn't have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago.''"
-->--'''US Senator Abraham Ribicoff''', 1968 Democratic National Convention

->''"[labeling anyone you disagree with] 'Alt Right' is the new way of succumbing to Godwin's Law."''
-->-- '''Sargon of Akkad''' aka '''Carl Benjamin'''
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'''Uncle Junior''': It sounds like Nazi Germany to ''me!''\\
'''Judge Greenspan''': Obviously you need a history lesson, sir.

->''"I don't wanna bring up the Holocaust -- I know, I know, the Holocaust!''\\

->''"Hitler came to power against the strong feminist movement in Germany, padlocked the family planning clinics, and declared abortion a crime against the state--all views that [[{{Hypocrite}} more closely resemble Rush Limbaugh's.]]"''

-->--'''Marten''', from Webcomic/QuestionableContent, [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1020 here]]

--> -- ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'', "[[http://xkcd.com/261/ Regarding Mussolini]]"

--> --''Webcomic/ASofterWorld'', "[[http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=803 803]]"

->''"Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said people in America are not eating enough fruits and vegetables. They want all the power of the federal government to [[{{Unishment}} force you to eat more fruits and vegetables.]] This is what the federal CDC -- They ([[YouMakeMeSic sic]]) going to be calling people and finding out how many fruits and vegetables you eat ''[sic]'' today. This is socialism of the highest order!"''

-->'''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', "As I Please," ''Tribune'', March 24, 1944

->-- Prime Minister '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill''', election broadcast of 4th June 1945

-->-- '''Pat Robertson.

->''" With George [=McGovern=] as President of the United States, we wouldn't have Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago.

-->-- '''Pat Robertson'''

->''"The [[HeteronormativeCrusader homosexual agenda]] is just like Islam: there is no room for dissent, there is no room to leave. Once you're in, ''you can't leave''."''
-->--'''Bryan Fischer''', 2010 Values Voter Summit

--> -- ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}, [[http://xkcd.com/261/ Regarding Mussolini]]''

->''"The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'"''
-->--'''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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-->-- ''HitlerRants'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4lJ9vsZjMU&p=751014BC83DD7643&index=36 "Hitler finds out Americans are calling each other Nazis"]]

'''Calvin:''' Why not?! Because I'm your mother and I said so. Get back in here.\\
'''Calvin's Mom:''' AND YOU CAN STOP GOOSESTEPPING AROUND THE HOUSE!

->''"It will be seen that, as used, the word ‘Fascism’ is almost entirely meaningless. In conversation, of course, it is used even more wildly than in print. I have heard it applied to farmers, shopkeepers, Social Credit, corporal punishment, fox-hunting, bull-fighting, the 1922 Committee, the 1941 Committee, Kipling, Gandhi, Chiang Kai-Shek, homosexuality, Priestley’s broadcasts, Youth Hostels, astrology, women, dogs and I do not know what else."''

->-- Prime Minister '''Winston Churchill''', election broadcast of 4th June 1945

-->--'''Ted Kaczynski a.k.a. The Unabomber''', '''Charles Manson''', and '''Fidel Castro''' [!!], 2012 Heartland Institute campaign

-->--'''Jonah Goldberg''', on animal rights[!] being a fascist position

-->--'''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2015/04/guided-by-beauty-of-their-weapons.html Phil Sandifer]]''', "Guided By the Beauty of Their Weapons"

'''Calvin:''' I'm going to hang around the drugstore all afternoon and eat candy and read comic books!\\

->''"[[Music/KanyeWest Kanye]] doesn’t compare the paparazzi to Hitler, but he does say that being a celebrity today is like being black in the 1960s. Either I wasn’t totally paying attention during the lesson on the CivilRightsMovement in the 6th grade or Kanye’s brain has been switched with that of a dead sloth, because I somehow missed the part where black people were given Givenchy gowns to wear to their protests and instead of getting attacked by police dogs and beaten by racists, they had their picture taken and were asked to sign autographs. I was taught wrong!"''

->''"This week, a Georgia congressman said, ''"I'm not comparing [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]] to Adolf Hitler. What I'm saying is [[NoExceptYes there's the potential of going down that road.]]"'' Well, Congressman, I'm not comparing your head to a butt-plug, but it does seem to spend a lot of time up your ass."''

-->-- John Mullaney

-->Creator/GeorgeOrwell, "As I Please," ''Tribune'', March 24, 1944