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Gene Sharp Quotes

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The purpose of this account is to quote from Gene Sharp's inspiring works on nonviolent action. It does not engage in debate nor does it express opinions of its own. Gene’s books are available for free here: www.aeinstein.org/digital-library

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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"Dictators require the assistance of the people they rule, without which they cannot secure and maintain the sources of political power.”
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"All governments rely on cooperation and obedience for their very existence. When people choose to withhold or withdraw that cooperation, governments are left without any pillars to support their weight."
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"Full cooperation, obedience, and support will increase the availability of the needed sources of power and, consequently, expand the power capacity of any government."
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"Dictators require the assistance of the people they rule, without which they cannot secure and maintain the sources of political power.”
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“No outside force is coming to give oppressed people the freedom they so much want. People will have to learn how to take that freedom themselves.”
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cNf...
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Gene Sharp 1987 interview
YouTube video by genesharpfilm
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"Whatever the merits of the violent option, however, one point is clear. By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. The dictators are equipped to apply violence overwhelmingly."
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"Dictators require the assistance of the people they rule, without which they cannot secure and maintain the sources of political power. These sources of political power include:" 1/10
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"Resistance, not negotiations, is essential for change in conflicts where fundamental issues are at stake. In nearly all cases, resistance must continue to drive dictators out of power" 1/3
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“Negotiation” does not mean that the two sides sit down together on a basis of equality and talk through and resolve the differences that produced the conflict between them. (1/2)
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"The offer by a dictatorship of “peace” through negotiations with the democratic opposition is, of course, rather disingenuous. The violence could be ended immediately by the dictators themselves, if only they would stop waging war on their own people." 1/4
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“No outside force is coming to give oppressed people the freedom they so much want. People will have to learn how to take that freedom themselves.”
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Nonviolent struggle is a technique for conducting conflicts by social, psychological, economic, and political methods of protest, non-cooperation, and disruptive intervention. (1/4)
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Gene Sharp Quotes @gene-sharp-quotes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
When one wants to bring down a dictatorship most effectively and with the least cost then one has four immediate tasks:
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