Gene Sharp Quotes

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

Gene Sharp

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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

• Maintain a beneficial ratio of protein to carbohydrate every time you eat. This one simple rule is the foundation for constructing a Zone-favorable diet. And what is that beneficial ratio of protein to carbohydrate? The ideal is about 0.75—that's three grams of protein to every four grams of carbohydrate. That's the ideal. But there's a range of beneficial protein-to-carbohydrate ratios that are still Zone-favorable—between about 0.6 and 1.0 see.

  

  Barry Sears
  • Rule
  • Foundation
  • Protein

• Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Goal

• The government does not have a lot of answers, so the more we rely on the government, the more dependent we become, and the more we put our faith into the hands of others. I like the Chinese proverb that says you can give someone a fish or you can teach him how to fish. Enough of taking fish, it’s time to teach people how to fish, how to create their own wealth. This is my mantra.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Government
  • Chinese
  • Wealth

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

  

  Gene Sharp
  • Dependent
  • Societies
  • Contrary