"Whatever promises offered by dictators in any negotiated settlement, no one should ever forget that the dictators may promise anything to secure submission from their democratic opponents, and then brazenly violate those same agreements."

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Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.12, Albert Einstein Institution

Gene Sharp

#Agreement Quotes #Promise Quotes #May Quotes

“Not creating delusions is enlightenment.”
“Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.”
“Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.”

Source : "The Philosophy of Ruby". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. September 29, 2003.
“There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.”
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”

Source : "Fictional character: Don Birnam". "The Lost Weekend", www.imdb.com. October 5, 1945.
“Toughest [lineup] I've faced. Hopefully, if it comes down to the playoffs, I can get my revenge.”
“There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.”
“Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear? Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”

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