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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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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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Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure…
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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…
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There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined…
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As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to…
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You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.
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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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It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that…
— John Boorman
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Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
— Julius Caesar
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[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and the process…
— Richard Willstatter
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Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
— Rebecca West
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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always…
— Oscar Wilde
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A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from…
— Ben Hecht
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An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute an intention…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways,…
— Jeff Cooper
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Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.
— F. E. Adcock
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Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who…
— Oswald Chambers
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