"Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the dictatorship serious problems, wealth and power are concentrated in too few hands. Although dictatorships may benefit from or be somewhat weakened by international actions, their continuation is dependent primarily on internal factors."

Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.7, Albert Einstein Institution

Gene Sharp

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“I'll tell you this about the Oscars - they're real.”
“You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1969). “An autobiographical novel”
“Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.”
“Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.”
“What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it.”

Source : Somaly Mam (2008). “The Road of Lost Innocence: As a girl she was sold into sexual slavery, but now she rescues others. The story of a Cambodian heroine.”, p.156, Spiegel & Grau
“I didn't really have any aspirations to do TV when I first decided to be an actor.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.”

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