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Do campaigns of nonviolent resistance work? Many people believe that Gandhi and Martin Luther King just got lucky: their movements tugged at the heartstrings of enlightened democracies at opportune moments, but everywhere else, oppressed people need violence to get out from under a dictator’s boot. The political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan assembled a dataset of political resistance movements across the world between 1900 and 2006 and discovered that three-quarters of the nonviolent resistance movements succeeded, compared with only a third of the violent ones. Gandhi and King were right, but without data, you would never know it.
Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker
la force de conviction d’un discours passait à 60 % par le langage du corps, à 30 % par les inflexions de la voix (ce que l’on appelle la prosodie) et à 10 % seulement par les mots eux-mêmes. En somme, un orateur est d’abord vu, ensuite entendu, et enfin seulement compris.
La Parole Est Un Sport De Combat
Bertand Périer
35. Munger's Iron Prescription:
If you can't state the opposing view on an issue at least as well as the people supporting it, then you're not entitled to your own view. Following this rule will prevent a great deal of stupidity.
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