"Violence by the defenders will be used by……" — Gene Sharp
"Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used to CLAIM that the putschists are saving the country from terrorism or #civil war, and are preserving "law and order"
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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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