Franco Quotes

“[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.”
― James D. Watson

“Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the Nazis. Why? Because they were pro-Fascist, was the obvious answer.”
― George Orwell, Fighting in Spain

“Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion is simple. The Semitic texts from Bronze Age Palestine of which Christianity is comprised still fit uncomfortably well with contemporary life. The Old Testament depicts a God capricious and cruel; blood sacrifice, vengeance, genocide; death and destruction et al. Would He not approve of Herr Hitler and the brutal, tribalistic crusade against Hebrews and non-Christian ‘untermensch?’

One thing is inarguable. His church on Earth has produced some of the most vigorous and violent contribution to the European fascist cause.

It is synergy. Man Created God, even if God Created Man; it all exists in the hubris and apotheosis of the narcissistic soul, and alas, all too many of the human herd are willing to follow the beastly trait of leadership. The idea of self-emancipation and advancement, with Europe under the jackboot of fascism, would be Quixotic to the point of mirthless lunacy.”
― Daniel S. Fletcher, Jackboot Britain

“Ember, I’m tired of pretending. I never want to spend a moment faking anything with you ever again, not even for the sake of public opinion. I want it to be real. I want to show everyone this is real”
― Tessonja Odette, Heart of the Raven Prince

“La vida oficial és un fàstic. La dictadura tot ho contamina, i quan algú mínimament neutral o moderadament refractari al Règim arriba a ostentar un càrrec oficial, la butaca li infecta els baixos amb els seus efluvis pestilents, que li amaren els glutis i penetren pel forat del cul per anar-se apoderant del seu cos i de la seva ànima, per dintre i per fora. Viure a l'Espanya de Franco és com tenir cagarrines, pare paret. No saps mai quan hauràs de córrer.”
― Màrius Serra, Plans de futur

“Also a fan of being inscrutable, Franco once said, 'You are a the slave of what you say and the master of what you don't say.' He might have added that that approach isn't always guaranteed to work. If you attempt, for example, to be sphinx-like, mysterious and enigmatic when you get to the front of a long queue at the chip shop, you do risk being punched quite hard in the back of the head.”
― Alexei Sayle, Stalin Ate My Homework

“It's funny how much of the miseries of this world are caused by short people –they are so much more quick-tempered and difficult to get on than the tall ones.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“La empresa del totalitarismo sería imposible en España sin resucitar artificialmente la división y el odio entre los españoles.”
― Manuel Chaves Nogales, La España de Franco

“He extends his arms. “The real me.”

I raise a brow. “I thought the real you preferred to wear only trousers and a shirt.”

“The real me prefers to be stark naked,” he says with a wink”
― Tessonja Odette, Heart of the Raven Prince

“I am waiting to write the poem that is something like a dance movie, the ones populated by fair haired ballerinas with just a little bit of singe to their tulle, not quite as dark as the Natalie Portman one, but girls woefully misunderstood by their parents or harboring dead mothers and sad pasts.”
― Kristy Bowen, I Hate You James Franco

“En la España franquista, la Ley de Vagos y Maleantes de 1954 incluye por primera vez a homosexuales y desviados sexuales. El comandante Antonio Vallejo-Nájera, jefe de los servicios médicos militares, y Juan José López Ibor llevan a cabo sucesivas investigaciones con el fin de examinar las raíces psicofísicas del marxismo (para descubrir el famoso «gen rojo»), la homosexualidad y la intersexualidad, preconizando, a pesar de la escasa tecnificación de las instituciones médicas durante el franquismo, la lobotomía, las terapias de modificación de conducta, el tratamiento mediante electroconvulsiones y la castración terapéutica con fines eugenésicos.”
― Beatriz Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

“Manuel Fernández Soto naceu eu Mugardos, A Coruña, en 1902. Durante a segunda guerra mundial loitou como guerrilleiro na retagarda alemana. Contoume que daquela tíñalle máis medo aos cans adestrados que aos propios nazis.”
― Antonio Téllez Solá, MARIO RODRÍGUEZ LOSADA (O Pinche, O Langullo). Guerrilla Warfare in Galicia

“Ningún dictador ha maltratado tanto y tan persistentemente la España rural como Franco.”
― Sergio del Molino, La España vacía: Viaje por un país que nunca fue

“...escucharte cosas que no dice ni Franco. ¿Qué digo Franco? A tu lado el del Pardo es un rojazo de libro. Y Girón es Marx con acento andaluz.”
― José de Cora, Habla Mario

“You foreigners, you're all the same! You come here to find out about Fredrico's death, yet you don't know a damn thing about what really happened in Granada in 1936." - Gerardo Ros”
― Ian Gibson, Death of Lorca

“Besides the local residents, Meraud frequently entertained visitors from other parts of the world. There was an extremely eccentric Spanish marquise, a royalist who had fled Franco and was plotting the return of the monarchy to Spain. She was an aggressive lesbian who seemed to expect Meraud to provide her with a female companion. Meraud balked at this, complaining that she had no intention of procuring for any of her guests. One day the marquise showed me the jacket of a book she had written about the Spanish War under a male pseudonym, featuring a photo of the marquise cross-dressed as a man, with a fake mustache to enhance the illusion.”
― Curtis Harrington, Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Business