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

• Coaching to me is the ultimate high, especially when you have a game plan and you see that game plan executed to perfection. To see those players take what you put in front of them in preparation and turn it into a masterpiece - it doesn't get any better than that.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • High
  • Game
  • Perfection

• If you want to open a supermarket chain and put your face all around the globe, selling your baby and your dog, if it makes you happy, who am I to disagree, as the song goes. But it's not for me. I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Song
  • Integrity
  • Selling

• Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks but I don't buy two'. It was something I joked about which has come back to bite me on the ----. I'm shrewd about money, I invest well, and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • People
  • Mind
  • Pride

• Those who are going to be in business tomorrow are those who understand that the future, as always, belongs to the brave.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Brave
  • Tomorrow

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

  

  Gene Sharp
  • Dependent
  • Contrary
  • Societies