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Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
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So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges,…
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The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of…
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That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If…
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There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the…
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By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
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Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.
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Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to…
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Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s…
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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression,…
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At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a…
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War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a…
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In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights,…
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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…
— Gene Sharp
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Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his…
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The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of…
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