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• I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

  Tony Blair

  Disarmament, Bases, Saddam

  "Blair sets out case for military action", www.cnn.com. February 18, 2003.

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• The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and the generalized state of exception have constructed a figure prey to fear and yearning for protection—the securitized. And the corruption of democracy has forged a strange, depoliticized figure, the represented. These subjective figures constitute the social terrain on which—and against which—movements of resistance and rebellion must act.

  Michael Hardt

  Communication, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• By contrast, China is a repressive regime that denies its citizens the essential freedoms of religion, political dissent and representative self-government.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Self, Political

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• Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.

  Scott McClellan

  Opposites, Way, Hussein

  "Insight" with Jonathan Mann, www.cnn.com. December 21, 2005.

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• China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

  John Palfrey

  Censorship, Internet, China

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• I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Country, Army

  "Correspondance Napoleon" edited by Henri Plon, Vol. 4, No. 3148, (p. 420), 1861.

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• I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Order, Law, Anarchy

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• Christ was crucified because he threatened the tonal of the time. He was killed because he threatened the established order of the political regime.

  Frederick Lenz

  Order, Political, Christianity

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• If someone thinks I'm a dickhead, fine, listen to someone else's record, then. We're not a totalitarian regime; no one's forced to listen to Coldplay. It's actually quite a compliment if you're something that people can stand against.

  Chris Martin

  Thinking, People, Records

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled to the protection of the law. The State protects the 'right' of some people to kill others, just as the courts protected the 'property rights' of slave masters in their slaves. Moreover, by this method the State achieves a goal common to all totalitarian regimes: it sets us against each other, so that our energies are spent in the struggle between State-created classes, rather than in freeing all individuals from the State.

  Ron Paul

  Struggle, Law, Class

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• Fritzsche, radio propaganda chief, by manipulation of the truth goaded German public opinion into frenzied support of the regime and anesthetized the independent judgment of the population so that they did without question their masters' bidding.

  Hans Fritzsche

  Independent, Support, Public Opinion

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• We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Iraq, Needs

  "Shades Of The Sixties" by Brian Dakss, www.cbsnews.com. October 26, 2002.

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• The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Wages

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.3, Best Books on

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• Desert Storm II would be in a walk in the park... The case for 'regime change' boils down to the huge benefits and modest costs of liberating Iraq.

  Kenneth Adelman

  Iraq, Storm, Benefits

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• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Reading, Russia, Doubt

  "Like it was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge". Book by Malcolm Muggeridge, p. 252, 1981.

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• When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

  John Bolton

  Afterlife, Would Be, Classic

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• The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises. The new cycle which begins with the ninth year of the Fascist regime places the alternative in even greater relief either we or they, either their ideas or ours, either our State or theirs!

  Benito Mussolini

  Struggle, Years, Ideas

  "Fundamentals of critical argumentation" by Douglas Walton, (p. 243), 2005.

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• We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king

  Peter Weiss

  Running, Country, Kings

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• The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by "the death of God" and of the subordinate god, Eros.

  Allan Bloom

  Sex, Self, Atmosphere

  Allan David Bloom (1993). “Love and Friendship”

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• The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group and, accordingly, they learned to remain unimpressed by Gentile temporal power. Being unimpressed did not mean being unafraid material power might beat or starve one to death; it did mean refusing to surrender moral hegemony to the majority merely because it had power.

  David Riesman

  Mean, Might, Majority

  "Individualism Reconsidered". Book by David Riesman, 1954.

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• The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.

  Gloria Estefan

  Beautiful, Husband, Ties

  "Estefan: Cuba won't be free until Fidel dead". "Boston Herald" Newspaper, March 12, 2008.

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• Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Hands, Government, Tools

  "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: An Interview with Iran's Agitator". Interview with Scott Macleod, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

  J. G. Ballard

  Self, Paranoid, Psychiatry

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. ... Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. In a Communist state love of neighbor may be classed as counter-revolutionary.

  Eric Hoffer

  Eye, Doors, Humanity

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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

  Marcel Proust

  People, Difficult, Oneself

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.419, Wordsworth Editions

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