"As soon as you choose to fight with……" — Gene Sharp
"As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that,"
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18 Quotes by Gene Sharp
Gene Sharp has 18 quotes on this site.
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Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they…
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So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police…
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The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative…
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By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always…
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Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the…
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Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too…
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Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything…
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Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the…
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There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup…
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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.…
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Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.
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