"Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated……" — Gene Sharp
"Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements."
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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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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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Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.
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It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also…
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
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The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended…
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The last months, weeks and days have seen accelerating discussions, involving the DUP for the first time, about a comprehensive…
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My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
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Soviet regime in a way deprived me from my childhood in my homeland, because my father was in military, and…
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements,…
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will…
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over,…
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