Collapse Quote by Gordon G. Chang Download Open image “Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.” — Gordon G. Chang ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collapse Fear Nihilism People Regimes Thinking
“Governments often keep their populace in permanent states of vigilance or anxiety against foreign enemies as a control mechanism—the politics of fear.” — Graham E. Fuller Copy Share Image
The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end. — Viktor Yushchenko Copy Share Image
When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy. — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression. — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Fear collapses all of our concerns down to the present situation, and prevents us from thinking long-term or rationally. — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Fear is a treacherous leader. It shrinks from the new and fails to meet the challenges of the future. — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
“There is another powerful factor which works against the chance of any kind of peaceful reconstruction and which is equally negative for all levels… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
“in the words of jurist John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, “the power to tax involves the power to destroy.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“Yet Zhongguancun pales when measured against India’s Bangalore, where government-sponsored development efforts started at about the same time. Today Bangalore produces original product, which… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“the traditionally used ratios of deficit to GDP and total debt to GDP, as computed using the official numbers, grossly overstate how much more… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“as long as our dreams outweigh our memories, America will be forever young” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“The students who surrendered the square on the morning of June 4 could not begin to imagine, in those sad days of 1989, that… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“Consider these words from Lech Wałęsa: In the past, you could stand with a gun behind a man who had a pick and a… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“Before laissez-faire there was wu wei. “Practise not doing and everything will fall into place,” says the Tao Te Ching, Taoism’s primer.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“at any given time about 30 percent of the stocks on China’s markets are being manipulated.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“Restraint, however, is the essence of modern governance. A government’s self-control permits its people to create, explore, and discover, and that’s what allows a… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“Until the tide goes out you don’t know who’s swimming naked. —WARREN BUFFETT” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
“Communism went against life, against man’s fundamental needs, against the need for freedom, the need to be enterprising, to associate freely against the will… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China]. — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it and desiring… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in,… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
I love that the collapse of The Other Side is being felt in both 'The Vampire Diaries' and 'The Originals' universes - as someone… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
NAFTA, by itself, will not collapse. The possibility is that the United States leaves the treaty, but the treaty itself would keep regulating relations… — Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal Copy Share Image
I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans.… — Charles Foster Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
