"Because the regime (read system) is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing. . . . Individuals need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system."  —Vaclav Havel