The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.
Gene SharpContrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.
Gene SharpIt's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.
Gene SharpDictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.
Gene Sharp