Coups Quotes

Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

— Sophie Swetchine

Thirty-two coups d'etat are enough.

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

— Kamisese Mara

I have always been against coups, and I cursed them.

— Fethullah Gulen

I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.

— Thaksin Shinawatra

Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]

— Pierre Corneille

In 2003, I warned of a 'creeping coup' in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia.

— John McCain

I would curse people who resort to coups against democracy, liberty, republic.

— Fethullah Gulen

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

— Dominic Raab

It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

— Gore Vidal

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

— Margaret Thatcher

One of ISIS' biggest propaganda coups was the beheadings of the aid workers and journalists. Is [Emni], the group that is exporting…

— Rukmini Maria Callimachi

Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways. [Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres, Ne lui…

— Jean de La Fontaine

As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality…

— Ala Bashir

The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think…

— Chris Pratt

We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on…

— Brit Hume

It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W.…

— Al Jardine

Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July…

— Ala Bashir

The coup de grace which ends the patient's life altogether is quite equivalent to the drastic modification in the institution of marriage…

— Dallin H. Oaks

I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable.…

— Iris Apfel

Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the…

— Umberto Eco

There are no term limits on His reign. He has always been King and He always will be King. There is no…

— Sam Storms

Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local…

— Charles Krauthammer

There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones…

— Ron Paul

If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape…

— Alain de Botton

All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography,…

— Edouard Boubat

When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add…

— Alex Timbers

The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs…

— Anonymous

There are leaks from the Embassy in Honduras. There was a coup in 2009. Obama broke with most of Latin America and…

— Noam Chomsky

For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years…

— Henry Miller

When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed…

— Garry Kasparov

What really worries me is that those who are in positions of power are not really affected by what we are writing.…

— Chinua Achebe

Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.

— Clarice Lispector

I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a…

— Jane Goodall

We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.

— Nicholas Meyer

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

— Jalal Talabani

Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Barbara Tuchman

Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup.

— Alexis Tsipras