"When a man is afraid and accedes to……" — Natan Sharansky
"When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender."
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36 Quotes by Natan Sharansky
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- The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts…
- People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a…
- Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
- Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the…
- They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot…
- Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's…
- I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will…
- This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic…
- To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link…
- The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and…
- To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people…
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