By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom. - Gene Sharp
Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.
- Gene Sharp
Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are. - Gene Sharp
Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones. - Gene Sharp
Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.
So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army - then y… - Gene Sharp
So, he reasoned, if you can identify the sources of a government's power - people working in civil service, police and judges, even the army - then y…
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
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.
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 t… - 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 t…
You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant. - Gene Sharp
You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.
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 f… - Gene Sharp
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 f…
Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite… - Gene Sharp
Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite…
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