Coups Quotes

Thirty-two coups d'etat are enough.

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Miracles are God's coups d'etat.

— Sophie Swetchine

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

— Fethullah Gulen

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

— Kamisese Mara

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

— Alexis Tsipras

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

— Barbara Tuchman

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

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Dominic Raab

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

— Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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

— Thaksin Shinawatra

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar…

— George Lucas

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged…

— John Ralston Saul

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders.…

— Ahmed Ben Bella

That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal…

— Manohla Dargis

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see…

— Edmond de Goncourt

Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some…

— Winston Churchill

If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia…

— Gough Whitlam

It's really funny if two women stand on the House floor. There are usually at least two men who go by and…

— Patricia Schroeder

If people wake up, think critically, and get angry, we get connected to that courage that the founding generation meant us to…

— Naomi Wolf

There had been a free and open election in Haiti in the early 1990s and president Jean-Bertrand Aristide won, a populist priest.…

— Noam Chomsky

We saw groups of people gathering in front of Lula's house in Sao Paulo this morning. You had people shouting at one…

— Simon Romero

Trump is much, much worse than people understand. A lot of his supporters are actually much, much better than people know. Most…

— Van Jones

If every man and woman were to take the meaning of their life and pursue it passionately, they would alter the social…

— Richard Bode

In Latin America, in the past, it was almost impossible to guarantee democracy. There were military dictatorships, and nowadays there are not…

— Evo Morales

For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world,…

— Jo Nesbo

One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the…

— Bob Hawke

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Chinua Achebe

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

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Anonymous

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

— Pierre Corneille

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

— Jalal Talabani

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

— Nicholas Meyer

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

— Jane Goodall

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

— Clarice Lispector

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