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

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

- 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…

- 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.

- Gene Sharp

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Gene Sharp