Bigs Quote by Gene Sharp

“Nonviolent struggle both requires and tends to produce a loss (or greater control) of fear of the government and its violent repression. That abandonment…

— Gene Sharp

[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.”

— Anonymous

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

— Demosthenes

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away.

— Chen Guangcheng

“Gandhi is best remembered for his adherence to the principle of nonviolence; but no less important was his adherence to non-demonization. Even when he…

— Walter Truett Anderson

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

— Tammy Baldwin

I ask myself what is a dictator? I don't understand. It is some kind of terrible person, a bad person. But I am not…

— Alexander Lukashenko

“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

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

— Ai Weiwei

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and…

— Stephen Vizinczey