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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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