Regimes famous quotes

I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
-- A. N. Wilson

#Thinking #People #Regimes

Only Allah changes the regime.
-- Abdul Salam Zaeef

#September 11 #September #Regimes

Americans will not allow any Islamic regime to reach the position of governance except if it is an accomplice to the Americans, just like what is happening right now in Iraq.
-- Ayman al-Zawahiri

#Islamic #Iraq #Regimes

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.
-- Azar Nafisi

#Past #Rights #Regimes

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.
-- Ben Whishaw

#Workout #Gone #Regimes

Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.
-- Brent Scowcroft

#Osama Bin Laden #Regimes #Bin Laden

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Groundhog Day #Determined #Regimes

I cannot understand how people can still call themselves Christians and not be furious adversaries of Hitler's regime.
-- Henning von Tresckow

#Christian #People #Regimes

Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.
-- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

#Rogues #Regimes

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
-- James Lovelock

#America #Revolution #Regimes

As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps with the public interest. The lesser evils of the regime become entrenched, while the greater good is never realized.
-- Jason Stearns

#Evil #Regimes #Interest

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick

#Fundamentals #Regimes #Hostility

The biggest threat to the regime is information.
-- John Baird

#Information #Regimes #Threat

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
-- John Major

#War #Men #Regimes

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.
-- John Palfrey

#Censorship #Internet #Regimes

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.
-- Jon Stewart

#Strong #Enough #Regimes

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.
-- Kim Dae-jung

#Korea #Want #Regimes

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception.
-- Leopoldo Lopez

#Venezuela #Regimes #Endure

The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
-- Liu Xiaobo

#Rights #World #Regimes

If there is one thing more difficult than submitting oneself to a regime it is refraining from imposing it on other people.
-- Marcel Proust

#People #Regimes #Difficult

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.
-- Mary Archer

#Writing #Prison #Regimes

The animal testing regime... is utterly futile
-- Michael Rawlins

#Animal #Animal Testing #Regimes

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.
-- Moshe Katsav

#Community #Accepting #Regimes

The Iranian regime doesn't express the wishes and values of the Iranian people.
-- Moshe Katsav

#People #Wish #Regimes

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Compassion #Regimes #Harder

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
-- Paul Wolfowitz

#Tyrants #Warning #Regimes

Having plenty of time and all the museum's funds at my disposal, I put myself on a regime to buy one picture a day.
-- Peggy Guggenheim

#Museums #Buying #Regimes

I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.
-- Rashida Jones

#Mom #My Mom #Regimes

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#People #Looks #Regimes

In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime
-- Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#Order #Social #Regimes

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
-- River Phoenix

#Regimes #Teach #Palestinian

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.
-- Ruben Blades

#Military #Lawyer #Regimes

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
-- Rupert Murdoch

#Technology #Regimes #Threat

I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while.
-- Sting

#Fitness #Running #Regimes

How will the bombing of Baghdad, a city of five million, accomplish a regime change?
-- Susan Sarandon

#Cities #Baghdad #Regimes

It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.
-- Svetlana Alliluyeva

#Suicide #World #Regimes

I want a counter-terrorism regime that is proportionate, focused and transparent.
-- Theresa May

#Want #Terrorism #Regimes

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.
-- Tony Blair

#Regimes #Bases #Disarmament

I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
-- Vaclav Klaus

#Way #Economic #Regimes

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
-- William Greider

#Globalization #Instruments #Regimes

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.
-- William Hague

#Minorities #Regimes #Isolated

What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.
-- Alan Menken

#People #Musical #Regimes

Let's be clear: Has the U.S. ever made any mistakes? Of course.Is the U.S. at all like [Vladimir] Putin's regime? Not at all.
-- Benjamin E. Sasse

#Mistake #Putin #Regimes

I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.
-- John Gimlette

#Regimes #Castro #Totalitarian Regimes

You want to bring the Assad regime down? You have to beat the Russians and the Iranians in Syria. That is not going to happen. Like it, don't like it - it's not going to be very pleasant.
-- Rashid Khalidi

#Want #Beats #Regimes

The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime.
-- Ayelet Shaked

#Economy #Regimes #Terror

The army did what Milosevic's regime asked of it, which was to create a 'Greater Serbia'.
-- Carlos Mesa

#Army #Regimes #Greater

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.
-- Rex W. Tillerson

#People #Speak #Regimes