Regimes Quotes
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It is no accident that the Labour Party of 1964 should share this craving for autarchy, for economic self-sufficiency, with the pre-war Fascist regimes and the present-day Communist states. They are all at heart totalitarian.
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The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
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Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
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We continue to argue with our European colleagues about the importance of fairness when it comes to compensation and transitional regimes for sugar and for bananas and for other commodities . . . .
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Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.
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The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
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Arab regimes need to come together far more than they have done if they are to convince their populations that the extremism carried out by IS in the name of Sunni Islam is destroying the traditional, tolerant Islam that most Arabs have always believed in.
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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.
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When the colonizers spoke of indigenous women - ignoring their own patriarchy, which they doubtlessly considered normal, just like today - it was always with tears in their eyes. They only referred to the differences between these two patriarchical regimes - the French one and the Algerian one - at the cost of any mention of their far more considerable commonalities.
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It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.
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The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.
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Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.
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"Hypercoherence" is one of the most dangerous threats to the long-term survival of our civilization. Hypercoherence is the close efficient linkage of all parts of the world economic, communication and transport systems. It has been crucial in the spread of great innovations, the rise of world wealth, and even the dissemination of democratic concepts and ethical values and the defeat of oppressive regimes.
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It remains, as ever, an axiom of conventional wisdom that the use of propaganda as a means of social and ideological control is distinctive of totalitarian regimes. Yet the most minimal exercise of common sense would suggest a different view: that propaganda is likely to play at least as important a part in democratic societies (where the existing distribution of power and privilege is vulnerable to quite limited changes in popular opinion) as in authoritarian societies (where it is not). It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.
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I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.
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There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.
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The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.
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The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.
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People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.
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If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute their people do not remain standing.
