"Dictators are not in the business of allowing……" — Gene Sharp
"Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones."
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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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As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you…
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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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More Allowing Quotes
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in…
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
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A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something…
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing…
— Benjamin Carson
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I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try…
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Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be…
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I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us…
— Laurel Clark
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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
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