Dead Hero Quotes by Gene Sharp

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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.
• So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges,…
• The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of…
• By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
• Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.
• Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to…
• Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure…
• Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with…

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