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Gene Sharp Quotes

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom Picture Quote #1

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, Picture Quote #1

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them Picture Quote #1

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority Picture Quote #1

Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the dictatorship serious problems, wealth and power are concentrated in too few hands. Although dictatorships may benefit from or be somewhat weakened by international actions, their continuation is dependent primarily on internal factors Picture Quote #1

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones Picture Quote #1

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Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are Picture Quote #1

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely Picture Quote #1

There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule Picture Quote #1

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Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom (Gene Sharp Quotes) 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, (Gene Sharp Quotes) The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them (Gene Sharp Quotes) By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority (Gene Sharp Quotes) Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the dictatorship serious problems, wealth and power are concentrated in too few hands. Although dictatorships may benefit from or be somewhat weakened by international actions, their continuation is dependent primarily on internal factors (Gene Sharp Quotes) Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones (Gene Sharp Quotes) Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are (Gene Sharp Quotes) Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country (Gene Sharp Quotes) 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 (Gene Sharp Quotes) Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely (Gene Sharp Quotes) There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself (Gene Sharp Quotes) 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 (Gene Sharp Quotes) Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule (Gene Sharp Quotes)