Overthrowing Quotes

#1. Ivy dreams sullenly and alone of overthrowing the cities.

Lord Dunsany

#2. I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.

Henry A. Kissinger

#4. If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.

Avery Dulles

#5. Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Jonathan Sacks

#6. The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves of oppression, if they are strong enough, whether by withdrawal from it, or by overthrowing it and substituting a government more acceptable.

Ulysses S. Grant

#7. Air forces offered the possibility of striking a the enemy's economic and moral centres without having first to achieve 'the destruction of the enemy's main forces on the battlefield'. Air-power might attain a direct end by indirect means - hopping over opposition instead of overthrowing it.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#8. Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity.

Vida Goldstein

#9. Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

Mort Sahl

#11. I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

Aziz Ansari

#12. All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

D.H. Lawrence

#13. I think he [Vaclav Havel] is one of the great figures of the 20th century. He is one of the people that was able to be a part of overthrowing a dictatorial system by talking to people and understanding what the elements of democracy really are and respect for each other and elevating.

Judy Woodruff

#14. I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say 'Yes,' that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt.

Jane Austen

#15. Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims himself the messiah, his pictures show pre-eminently those qualities which are learned in the museums.

Jules Breton

#16. At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Garry Trudeau

#17. A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.

Lawrence Hunter

#18. If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

James F. Cooper

#19. The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

Vladimir Lenin

#20. She watched the stream of hot black liquid fall, and felt suddenly, painfully alive to what she had risked in overthrowing her life for the man walking away into the night with another woman.

J.K. Rowling

#21. Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole ... patriarch!

Gloria Steinem

#22. If overthrowing some five thousand years of patriarchy seems like a big order, just focus on celebrating each self-respect step along the way

Eve Ensler

#23. Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist Asia that set records for mass slaughter.

Nicholas Kristof

#24. We'd read about sirens in English this fall; Greek mythology bullshit about women so beautiful, their voices so enchanting, that men did anything for them. Turned out that mythology crap was real because every time I saw her, I lost my mind.

Katie McGarry

#25. When a human being resists his whole age and stops it at the gate to demand an accounting, this must have influence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.

Evan Esar

#27. His parties have room for all. Come on in. Nobody to look at you funny in here. Nobody to tell you not to have that drink, kiss that fella, smash that chair, light that chandelier on fire. Do it all. Do it all forever.

Catherynne M Valente

#28. People don't do me much good.

Charles Bukowski

#29. Opposites are joined at the hip. Night and day, poisons and pleasures, innovation and destruction are usually different facets of the very same thing. [...] Opposites work together in the very opposite of the way they seem - not tearing each other to bits or threatening to annihilate each other.

Howard Bloom

#30. He received a phone call, And memories of the past rose anew.

Nicholas Sparks

#31. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience and you will know'.

Idries Shah

#32. I am not quite sure of being a man: I never found it very difficult. It seemed to me that you had only to let yourself alone.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#33. Be suspicious of the litigious.

Stewart Stafford