Autonomous Quote by Vaclav Havel

“The old vicious cycle of empires threatened to repeat itself, the old story of the many led by the few. Always it had come,…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“every totalitarian regime forms a type of human being on whom it relies for its stability. The shaping of the New Man is the…

— Masha Gessen

The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.

— Jalal Talabani

Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.

— Gordon G. Chang

Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster.

— Jill Stein

Reading 'Animal Farm' set me free from the dictatorship in my head. I could see all the tactics used by the regime to control…

— Park Yeon-mi

Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its…

— Frank Chodorov

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

“Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the reasons given…

— Bernard Crick

“micromanagement was a form of dictatorship. Just look at governments like the old Soviet Union to see that the results are a loss of…

— George Ilian

The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build…

— Gene Sharp

The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean…

— Leon Trotsky