Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others.
Source: Independent on Sunday (London, 1 Sept. 1991).
-- Ryszard Kapuscinski, ( -1932), Polish reporter, writer; His best-known book is a reportage-novel of the decline of Haile Selassie's anachronistic regime in Ethiopia.