Gene Sharp Quotes

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

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• Jason Rezaian, held for 544 days in Iran, was not a spy but rather a 'Washington Post' journalist whose work aimed to increase cultural understanding between Iran and the world.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Work
  • Understanding

• He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.

  

  Aristotle
  • Motive
  • Courageous
  • Right Way

• Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Good
  • Faults
  • Counts

• Maybe we didn't have many possessions, but we never went hungry, were cold, or lacked love.

  

  Yanni
  • Love
  • Cold
  • Hungry

• In language clarity is everything.

  

  Confucius
  • Language
  • Everything
  • Clarity

• Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Government
  • Silence
  • Tradition

• What a deformed thief this fashion is.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fashion
  • Thief
  • Deformed

• None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Live
  • Renounce
  • Himsa

• Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Giving
  • Military
  • Obedience

• Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Today
  • Language
  • Lying

• So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Perspective
  • Tradition
  • Europe

• Es más fácil levantar la caída que no dejarla caer. Déjala caer y la levantarás.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Internet

• I would prefer that, rather than sitting down and giving someone advice, I would way rather write a song about what I was going through. I think that's a pure, organic process of learning from someone else's mistakes.

  

  Anthony Green Circa Survive
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.

  

  Estelle
  • Control
  • Baby
  • I Remember

• A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Islam
  • Societies
  • Peasants

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

  

  Gene Sharp
  • Dependent
  • Contrary
  • Societies