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The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police. — Carl Joachim Friedrich

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. — Salman Rushdie

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them. — Sue Townsend

Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball. — Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes. — Svetlana Alliluyeva

The list of non-democratic regimes that have seen significant reforms since 2001 is long and significant. — Ginny Brown-Waite

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder. — Nadine Gordimer

The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes. — Helmut Newton

Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day. — Peggy Guggenheim

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people. — Marcel Proust

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

The internet, Facebook and Twitter have created mass communications and social spaces that regimes cannot control. — Shimon Peres

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament. — Tony Blair

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations? — Robert Mugabe

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. — Stephen Harper

I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime. — Henning Von Tresckow

I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change. — John Gimlette

In the Middle East there are two kinds of regimes - those that could be worse, and those that couldn't be worse. — Bret Stephens

It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things. — Aleksandar Hemon

Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone. — Gordon G. Chang

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. — Stephen Hawking

The regimes will fall because of something no one will see coming: when people stop using the imported language of others and discover their own. — Fadi Azzam

Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras. — Jeremy Rifkin

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while. — Sting

Like most guys, I don't come to beauty regimes naturally. I'm dragged kicking and screaming by the best in the world. — Rob Lowe

The biggest threat to the regime is information. — John Baird

She developed a kind of disdain for her only sibling usually reserved for despotic political regimes and perpetrators of genocide. — Elisa Albert

Only Allah changes the regime. — Abdul Salam Zaeef

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources. — Kristin Scott Thomas

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception. — Leopoldo Lopez

[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion. — Christopher Hitchens

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook. — Evgeny Morozov

There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking. — Alexis Tsipras

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet. — John Palfrey

Nonviolent campaigns against authoritarian regimes are twice as likely to succeed as violent ones. — Anonymous

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me. — Margaret Thatcher

Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. — George W. Bush

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes. — Paul Wolfowitz

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes. — Evgeny Morozov

The animal testing regime ... is utterly futile — Michael Rawlins

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability. — Natan Sharansky

The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons. — George W. Bush

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights. — Liu Xiaobo

It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals of genocidal weaponry, true. — Christopher Hitchens

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business. — Corinne Maier

We will be changing the regime of Iraq for the good of the iraqi people. — George W. Bush

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to. — Stephen Kinzer

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. — Paul Samuelson

Not surprisingly, nondemocratic regimes by their nature are built around the restriction of individual freedom. — Patrick H. O'Neil

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined. — John Ringo

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do. — Hillary Clinton

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing. — Ben Whishaw

Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

The dead-enders are still with us, those remnants of the defeated regimes who'll go on fighting long after their cause is lost. — Donald Rumsfeld

Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them. — Ivan Krastev

Egyptian papyri mention temple attendants who cleansed patients and implemented regimes of diet and exercise. — Steve Parker

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original. — Aung San Suu Kyi

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want. — Harry S. Truman

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. — Rupert Murdoch

The superior force of despotic regimes is disarmed not through violence but through conversion. — Chris Hedges

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star. — Biz Stone

Violence is the common origin of all regimes. Life, discussion, and political choice occur only against a background of violence. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime. — Ayelet Shaked

Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished. — John Howard

Revolutions are true as movements and false as regimes. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change? — Susan Sarandon

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. — Tahar Ben Jelloun