Quotes About Coup

The guy said, "If you'd taken that punch on the upper arm, you'd expect one hell of a bruise. Which is exactly what you got. Not on the outside. Not enough flesh. The bruise is on the inside. On your brain. With a twin across the hall, because your brain bounced from side to side in your skull like a goldfish in a test tube. What we call coup and contre-coup.

You have a cerebral contusion, in Latin contusio cerebri, in fact technically two, both coup and contre

He remained against Getúlio even after the 1937 coup.

Los autoritarios necesitan a gente que promueva los disturbios o desencadene el golpe de Estado. Pero también necesitan a personas que sepan utilizar un sofisticado lenguaje jurídico, que sepan argumentar que violar la Constitución o distorsionar la ley es lo correcto.

Revolution must be distinguished from revolt, coup d'état, palace takeover. A coup or a palace takeover may be planned, but a revolution—never. Its outbreak, the hour of that outbreak, takes everyone, even those who have been striving for it, unawares. They stand amazed at the spontaneity that appears suddenly and destroys everything in its path. It demolishes so ruthlessly that in the end it may annihilate the ideals that called it into being.

For all its pro-democracy rhetoric, the West rolled over to military coups in Egypt and Thailand.

Six months after I was born, we moved to Ghana. The first five years of my life were there. In 1982, when there was a coup d'etat, my family left because the government was overthrown, and my dad was involved in politics.

When de Gaulle and Bohlen met at the Elysee a few days after the coup the French leader spoke in harsh tones. You will be blamed for the deaths of Diem and Nhu, he told the American. You may do and say what you like; no one will believe you. It is you who will be held responsible.

In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.

You pride yourself on being a realist, I told myself, so face the facts. There's been a coup, here in the United States, just as in times past in so many other countries. Any forced change of leadership is always followed by a move to crush the opposition. The opposition is led by the educated, so the educated are the first to be eliminated. You're a judge, so you are the educated, like it or not. They won't want you around.

Only it is right to bear in mind one fact, that, admitting the lawfulness of the coup d'état, you must not object to the dictatorship. And, admitting the temporary necessity of the dictatorship, it is absolute folly to expect under it the liberty and ease of a regular government.

Si el primer intento golpista había venido de la derecha, con el golpe frustrado del general Sanjurjo, el segundo, más grave y sangriento, vino de la izquierda, y se llamó revolución de Asturias. En octubre de 1934, mientras en Cataluña el presidente Companys proclamaba un Estado catalán que fue disuelto con prudente habilidad por el general Batet (años más tarde fusilado por los franquistas, que no le perdonaron esa prudencia)

Banqueros de postín como Juan March, que a esas alturas ya habían puesto la pasta a buen recaudo en el extranjero, empezaron a ofrecerse para financiar un golpe de Estado como Dios manda, y algunos destacados generales contactaron discretamente con los gobiernos de Alemania e Italia para sondear cómo verían el sartenazo a la República.

The only chance of a rupture is if Mubarak decides to push Gamal toward the presidency despite objections put forward by the military. The reason the military may object is that Gamal, unlike Nasser, Al-Sadat, and Mubarak himself, is not from within their own military ranks. Some point to the possibility of a military coup in such circumstances.

Nasser's coup got rid of everything that was good in Egypt, and slowly replaced everything that was bad with something much worse.

Either there will be a coup d'état, or we will have Muslim extremism.

The dilemma facing Hitler in 1923 was how to carry out a coup d'etat which could only hope to succeed with the army's tacit, if not explicit support, yet which must not be so dependent on the army that its fruits might be denied him.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. When

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million.

They had thought that going about everything through legal means would expose Hitler's crimes, would avoid the grim possibility of sparking a civil war, and would avoid turning him into a martyr, since his popularity was soaring. But Hitler must make the first move. When he did, the army would stage its coup, and everything would be different.

It's really funny if two women stand on the House floor. There are usually at least two men who go by and say, 'What is this, a coup?' They're almost afraid to see us in public together.

If I can just get him in Kotoamatsukami, I can make Lord Fugaku tell everyone the coup is off. And I can make Fugaku himself believe from the bottom of his heart that it was his own idea.

His obtuseness reminded me that BP—previously known as British Petroleum—had started off as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company: the same company whose unwillingness to split royalties with Iran's government in the 1950s had led to the coup that ultimately resulted in that country's Islamic Revolution.)

Each of these four coups was launched against a government that was reasonably democratic (with the arguable exception of South Vietnam), and each ultimately led to the installation of a repressive dictatorship.