My family fled socialist regimes not once but twice.

My family fled the Soviet Union when I was three and a half years old. Upon arriving in New York City in 1979, my…

— Alexander Vindman

If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by contrasting social,…

— Richard Pipes

“Nonviolent campaigns against authoritarian regimes are twice as likely to succeed as violent ones.”

— Anonymous

In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my parents were…

— Azita Ghanizada

“Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

Noon, ripe as thunder and silent as thought, had fled unfingered.

— Mervyn Peake

“As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is…

— Ilhan Omar

“A kid ran into the darkness. His clothing was on fire; the flames streamed behind him as he fled screaming.”

— Michael Grant

“Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.”

— Brian Francis Slattery

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw…

— Philip Yancey

“The winds of wrath came driving him, and blindly in the foam he fled from west to east, and errandless, unheralded he homeward sped.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“He ran toward the light. When he passed the corpse of his dead friend, he began to weep again. He picked up his sword.…

— M. John Harrison

I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.

— Alfonsina Storni

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the…

— Carlo Collodi