"By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority."

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Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.5, Albert Einstein Institution

Gene Sharp

#Struggle Quotes #Mean Quotes #Violent Quotes

“It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.”
“In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.115, Penguin UK
“A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.”

Source : Catherine Anderson (2006). “Summer Breeze”, p.67, Penguin
“I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.”
“I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.”

Source : "Accidental stardom / Owen Wilson never expected to be an actor" by Ruthe Stein, www.sfgate.com. December 16, 2001.
“I don't know if I've ever screamed or cried for a band.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier.”
“The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was not aware of how rare it was to be an African American, how rare it was to have four years of training under my belt, and how, even though I could imitate people and fake it, unprepared I was to become a professional.”

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