Vasko Lazarevski

“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.”
― Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy

“There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself”
― Gene Sharp, The anti-coup

“Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely.”
― Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard