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> [Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/further-democratic-negotiators-or-foreign-negotiation-specialists/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

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> [Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/dictators-are-not-in-the-business-of-allowing-elections-that-could/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

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## Other authors on Dictators

- [Mona Eltahawy 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dictators/mona-eltahawy/)

## More by Gene Sharp

> [There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the existing ruler…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/there-s-one-thing-that-s-been-learned-maybe-from-tunisia-and-egypt/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/nonviolent-action-involves-opposing-the-opponent-s-power-including/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [“In some cases, however, limited violence against the dictatorship may be inevitable. Frustration and hatred of the regime may explode into violence. Or, certain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/in-some-cases-however-limited-violence-against-the-dictatorship-may/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [“Liberation from dictatorships ultimately depends on the people's ability to liberate themselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/liberation-from-dictatorships-ultimately-depends-on-the-people-s/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [“Engage in friendly creative communication with the functionaries and troops serving the putschists while continuing resistance. Explain to them the reasons for the defense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/engage-in-friendly-creative-communication-with-the-functionaries-and/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/the-degree-of-liberty-or-tyranny-in-any-government-is-in-large-degree/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/violence-by-the-defenders-will-be-used-by-the-putschists-to-justify/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/nonviolent-struggle-is-the-most-powerful-means-available-to-those/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/the-degree-of-liberty-or-tyranny-in-any-government-is-it-follows-in/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [“As Charles Stewart Parnell called out during the Irish rent strike campaign in 1879 and 1880: It is no use relying on the Government…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/as-charles-stewart-parnell-called-out-during-the-irish-rent-strike/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/dictatorships-are-never-as-strong-as-they-think-they-are-and-people/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/by-placing-confidence-in-violent-means-one-has-chosen-the-very-type/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [“Nonviolent defiance often risks serious casualities, but it seem to produce far fewer casualitie than when both sides use violence. At the same time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/nonviolent-defiance-often-risks-serious-casualities-but-it-seem-to/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If you fight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/that-is-straight-out-of-gandhi-if-people-are-not-afraid-of-the/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

> [The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-sharp/the-fall-of-one-regime-does-not-bring-in-a-utopia-rather-it-opens-the/)

[Gene Sharp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-sharp/)

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