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Pronunciation: [ɹˈe͡ɪn ɒv tˈɛɹə] (IPA)

The term "reign of terror" refers to a period when a government or an institution uses extreme measures to maintain control over its citizens. There are several synonyms for this phrase, including "tyranny," "despotism," and "autocracy." These words denote a form of government that functions with absolute power and control, often through fear and intimidation. Other synonyms for "reign of terror" include "police state," "totalitarianism," and "authoritarianism." These terms describe governments that exert control over their citizens through surveillance, censorship, and violence. While there may be some differences in the nuances of each term, they all ultimately describe a system of government that prioritizes control over individual liberties.

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Famous quotes with Reign of terror

  • We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
    W. Averell Harriman
  • The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
    Camille Paglia
  • The same reign of terror that occurred under Robespierre and Hitler occurred back then in the fifties, as it occurs now. You must realize that there is very little actual courage in this world. It's pretty easy to bend people around. It doesn't take much to shut people up, it really doesn't. In the fifties all I had to do was call a guy up on the telephone and say, "Well, I think your wife would like to know about your mistress."
    Ronald DeWolf
  • Prestige stands between the masses and a revolt against their class enemy. The aura of magic, glamour, luster and splendid permanence covers the fascists like a protective layer of fat. The slimy scales of majesty shield and conceal the dilapidation of the old bourgeois reign of terror.
    George Jackson (activist)
  • Property has been the central consideration of the United States government, but it has become even more so over time. Between the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, to provide just one obvious, and in some ways, silly, example (silly because all of the terms are seemingly obvious, yet in fact nearly impossible to adequately define) and the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1868, the inalienable right with which men [] are self-evidently endowed by their Creator, and which may not be abridged by the State, changed from "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness," to life, liberty, and property. The Fourteenth Amendment, passed during the KKK's maiden reign of terror, ostensibly to protect the rights of blacks from racist state governments, has been used far more often to protect the rights to property: Of the Fourteenth Amendment cases brought before the Supreme Court between 1890 and 1910, only nineteen dealt with the rights of blacks, while two hundred and eighty-eight dealt with the rights of corporations.
    Derrick Jensen

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