"Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones."

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Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.6, Albert Einstein Institution

Gene Sharp

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“We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.”
“Life is one long jubilee.”
“Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.”
“I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.”

Source : "'I always fight directors'". Interview with Christopher Turner, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.
“You need to be smart about what you put in your body.”
“Either one of you kill him, or I will.â€ Shade, Wraith and Kynan raised their hands to volunteer. How special. Brotherly love ran like syrup in the room.”
“I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.”
“My parents' deportation gave me so much strength to keep on moving forward, because any type of failure - whether in school or with jobs or rejection from a casting office - nothing could be as bad as what I had already gone through. Nothing could be worse than coming home expecting to see your loving parents and them not being there.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

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