Freedom Quote by Gene Sharp Download Open image ““Liberation from dictatorships ultimately depends on the people's ability to liberate themselves.”” — Gene Sharp ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Liberation Power struggle
“[...] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.” — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Part of liberation is being free to do your own thing and letting everyone else be free to do theirs.” — Christa Dickson Copy Share Image
“Freedom lost to any regime, be it communist or liberal, steals the very breath of democracy” — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
“Democracy doesn’t give everything, but it grants the freedom to be yourself and pursue what you need.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
“Literate, affluent, self-confident people do not like living under either dictatorship or chaos. As more nations move into modernity and find themselves populated with… — Oliver H. Woshinsky Copy Share Image
“Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.” — Newton Lee Copy Share Image
“The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.” — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Liberation is indeed one and only one of the essence, of this world.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
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… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
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… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
“In some cases, however, limited violence against the dictatorship may be inevitable. Frustration and hatred of the regime may explode into violence. Or, certain… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
“Engage in friendly creative communication with the functionaries and troops serving the putschists while continuing resistance. Explain to them the reasons for the defense… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
“As Charles Stewart Parnell called out during the Irish rent strike campaign in 1879 and 1880: It is no use relying on the Government… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
“Nonviolent defiance often risks serious casualities, but it seem to produce far fewer casualitie than when both sides use violence. At the same time,… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image