Captives Quote by Vaclav Havel

Regime is made up of people, so I do put faces to regimes and governments, so I feel that all human beings have the…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“One more thing: the regime is a show that conceals what in reality is chaos. What looks orderly and restrictive is in fact disorganized…

— Masha Gessen

“Totalitarianism is the result of the hypostasis of the political and the correlative lowering of life as well as the individual. This term does…

— Michel Henry

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

— Anonymous

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

— Carl Joachim Friedrich

Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the…

— Benito Mussolini

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and…

— Stephen Vizinczey

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear,…

— Albert Pike

The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

— Viktor Yushchenko

This is how dictatorships always behave: they deny reality; they deny crises.

— Juan Guaido

Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major…

— Rudolph Rummel

So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the…

— Gene Sharp