Gene Sharp Quotes
Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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A will finds a way.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn’t exist. In a free society, an open society, people have strong opinions, and these opinions very often clash. In a democracy, we have to learn to deal with this. And this is true about novels, it’s true about cartoons, it’s true about all these products.
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I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
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Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences. At the same time, there is the other certainty that, through progressive evolution, by slow adaptation to the conditions of environment, they may be transformed.
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Thinking through how you look to your enemies is helpful. That doesn't mean that your ideology is wrong and theirs is right, but maybe you have to recognise that they have one - and that it may be logically coherent. Which may be uncomfortable.
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Before I even pick up a guitar, usually the words are done. So I'm not first and foremost a musician. I'm first and foremost a writer.
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I have people introducing themselves to me: 'I am your publicist; what can I do for you?' But I have never learned how to use a publicist.
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We seem to want one vehicle to carry people and soccer balls and hay bales.
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People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it.
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Anything where there's great enthusiasm, and a place to come share what you think is cool.
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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.
