#regime

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communist #either #i #indeed #legal

I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don't like having a lot of atmosphere around. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#atmosphere #certain #cup #desk #green

Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and after the Yalta agreement he was sent to teach in military academy in Riga, and I was born then. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#after #agreement #because #born #childhood

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#adaptation #all things #branches #climate #dress

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#country #impose #invade #regime #stability

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#because #both #democracy #did #go

They have an understanding regime; they work hard and get results, they are a happy team. ↗

— David Gower

#happy #hard #regime #results #team

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

— William Hague

#even #find #indefensible #isolated #minority

We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

#created #elected #except #gaza #government

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development. ↗

— Jose Ramos-Horta

#aggression #been #biological #biological weapons #case