Gene Sharp Quotes About Dictatorship

• That is straight out of Gandhi. If people are not afraid of the dictatorship, that dictatorship is in big trouble. … If you fight with violence, you are fighting with your enemy’s best weapon, and you may be a brave but dead hero.

  Gene Sharp

  Hero, Fighting, People

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

  Gene Sharp

  Thrones, Election, Dictator

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.6, Albert Einstein Institution

• Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

  Gene Sharp

  Strength, Confidence, Strong

  "Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare". Interview with Mairi Mackay, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2012.

• 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 you know what a dictatorship depends on for its existence.

  Gene Sharp

  Army, Sacrifice, Government

• Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

  Gene Sharp

  Country, Military, Political

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.7, Albert Einstein Institution

• 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

  Country, Home, Hands

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.7, Albert Einstein Institution

• Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

  Gene Sharp

  Population, Opinion, Dictatorship

  Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.18, Albert Einstein Institution

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