Quotes About Regime

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE features of the Augustan regime was that speech remained free.

But now the idea that Rome had an imperial destiny was one of the ways by which the regime justified itself in the public mind.

Peace has only one meaning in this Imperium. It's the maintenance of a single way of life.

The sale wasn't seen as just a transition in ownership regimes; it was a dying elite handing over power to an ascendant one

Sugar planting was the oil business of the eighteenth century, and Saint-Domingue was the Ancien Regime's Wild West frontier, where sons of impoverished noble families could strike it rich.

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.

I attribute my lean physique to the regime I've been following thanks to my brother Rahul who made sure fitness was of prime importance in my life.

The more totalitarian a regime's nature, the more it will try to force people to forget their cultural memories. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the role of Winston Smith within the Ministry of Information is to erase all newspaper records of past events to reflect the current political priorities of the Party. This, said the ex-communist Polish intellectual Leszek Ko?akowski, reflects "the great ambition of totalitarianism—the total possession and control of human memory.

We live, contented and safe, with the idea that in a civilized country, in the mostly cultured and democratic environment of our times, such a coercive regime is impossible. We forget that in unstable countries, a certain political structure can lead to indoctrination and terror, where individual elements and stages of brainwashing are already implemented. This, at first, is quite inconspicuous. However, often in a very short time, it can develop into a full undemocratic totalitarian system.26

In the 1930s, before the rise of the communist regime, there were already strong forces in the culture that paved the way for it," says Patrik Benda, a Prague political consultant, of his native Czechoslovakia. "All the artists and intellectuals advocated communist ideas, and if you didn't agree, you were marked for exclusion. This was almost two decades before actual communism took power.

No regime is trying to steal our cultural memory and Christian identity from us. We are giving it away ourselves.

rule by one man, rule by the many, or rule by the few.

respectively, tyrannis, demokratia, and oligarchia.

La identidad nacional que preconiza el régimen es una mezcla de moralina reaccionaria y de folklore indigenista mal digerido.

Un gobierno desorganizado y sin objetivos claros puede derivar en una autocracia.

No hay un proceso de regeneración para mejorar lo que se ha descompuesto, sino un movimiento de restauración del viejo régimen político autoritario.

from the moment when the priests use the pulpit as a means of political struggle against the working classes, the workers must fight against the enemies of their rights and their liberation. For he who defends the exploiters and who helps to prolong this present regime of misery, he is the mortal enemy of the proletariat, whether he be in a cassock or in the uniform of the police.

In the early 1990s, at the beginning of the Taliban regime, there had been a sort of relief that there was some law and order in the country, but that quickly turned bitter when the shariah was enforced.

What you do know is that there is one fact of Jewish life unchanged by the creation of a Jewish state: you cannot take your right to live for granted. Others can; you cannot. This is not to say that everyone else is living pleasantly and well under a decent regime. No, it means only that the Jews, because they are Jews, have never been able to take the right to live as a natural right.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

Unless one is willing to believe that the Putin regime acted out of purely altruistic motives in exfiltrating this American intelligence worker to Moscow, the only plausible explanation for its actions in Hong Kong was that it recognized Snowden's potential as an espionage source.

opponents of the regime, and the foundations of

Un régimen que se ensaña contra sus jóvenes, los mata, los encierra, les quita horas, días, años de su vida absolutamente irrecuperables, es un régimen débil y cobarde, que no puede subsistir. •Isabel Sperry de Barraza, maestra de primaria

That the Soviet regime was almost as unforgiving towards its own soldiers as towards the enemy is demonstrated by the total figure of 13,500 executions, both summary and judicial, during the battle of Stalingrad.