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Quotes About Overthrow

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
~ Stephen Kinzer
El maldito Bonaparte la embarró al mejor tiempo: expiró su imperio y nos dejó en los cuernos del toro».
~ Jorge Fernández Díaz
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
~ Euripides
We want to overthrow the imperial power not because it is Manchurian but because we want republicanism... We republican revolutionaries can never have the notion of becoming emperors after the revolution, like all the peasant rebels did in the past.
~ Sun Yat-sen
Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.
~ Stephen Kinzer
To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
~ Alfred Rosenberg
Wozu Türme bauen wie der Himalaja Wenn man sie nicht umwerfen kann Damit es ein Gelächter gibt?
~ Bertolt Brecht
If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.
~ Ryszard Kapuscinski
If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Trapped him the gray people    as the great are brought down by the weak    when they are many As the hawk is mobbed by the roller birds    as the great sea eagle is brought down by gulls
~ Megan Whalen Turner
For how does one overthrow, change, or even challenge a system that you have been taught to admire, to love, to believe in?
~ bell hooks
If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it's our job to realize it and get down to business.
~ Steven Pressfield
the Temple guard will most certainly arrest him. Jesus continues to believe God's kingdom can come without swords. But I am both a Cynic and a Zealot. I only know we cannot let this moment pass. If it is necessary, I will do what I must this Passover to ensure the masses rise up and overthrow the Romans at last. The sacrifice of one for many.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Jesus has proclaimed that he is a Messiah," he said, turning toward us. "He did it believing God will act, but it wasn't only a religious statement. It was a political one. That's what worries me most, Ana. Pilate knows the Jewish Messiah is meant to overthrow Rome—he will take it seriously.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?" As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?
~ Josh Lanyon
Secret combinations lusting for power, gain, and glory are flourishing. A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Slave driver, the table is turn.Catch a fire so you can get burn.
~ Bob Marley
In 1965 the Indonesian military—advised, equipped, trained, and financed by the U.S. military and the CIA—overthrew President Achmed Sukarno and eradicated the Indonesian Communist Party and its various allies, killing half a million people (some estimates are as high as a million) in what was the greatest act of political mass murder since the Holocaust.
~ Michael Parenti
A political revolution must proceed simultaneously with the nationalist revolution. When we overthrow the Manchu regime, we will achieve not only a nationalist revolution against the Manchus but also a political revolution against monarchy. They are not to be carried out at two different times.
~ Sun Yat-sen
Media coverage of Milley's letter was scant, but Vox reported it was a "remarkable statement" and "it looks as though America's top military officials won't tolerate another thing: the attempted overthrow of American democracy by force.
~ Bob Woodward
Of the people, by the people, for the people. I can't remember offhand where that quote comes from; it was something to do with some bunch of wild-eyed idealists overthrowing the tyrant so they could become tyrants themselves. No good will have come of it, you can be sure. The people; God help us.
~ K.J. Parker
We really have to do something about you ambivalence toward civic duty, kid." "I already overthrew one government," Vin said. "I figure that takes care of my 'civic duty' for a while.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Puissance, justice, histoire: à bas!
~ Henry Miller