Coup Quotes

53 Coup quotes by 50 unique authors

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations. — Hugo Chavez
Public television goes dark only in two circumstances: when a country is occupied by foreign forces or when there is a coup. — Alexis Tsipras
I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat. — Thaksin Shinawatra
That Ms. Farahani found Mr. Mohassess and persuaded him to share his story is a terrific coup, even if a great deal of his life's… — Manohla Dargis
We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs,… — Jacques Pierre Brissot
My biggest disappointment was, of course, the coup attempts, ... The economy was proceeding very well, but in 1989 we had the most serious coup… — Corazon Aquino
The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying… — Orhan Pamuk
If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end… — Gough Whitlam
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and military gangs have shackled their… — B. H. Liddell Hart
There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense… — Gene Sharp
I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used… — Iris Apfel
Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I… — Winston Churchill
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.… — Al Jardine
Condelleza Rice and Colin Powell are both dangerous people. What they did in Haiti [2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide] is… — Randall Robinson
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale. — Jalal Talabani
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several… — Charles Jencks
Why should we care about the coup? First, because we depend on Yemen's government to support our drone war against another local menace, al-Qaeda in… — Charles Krauthammer
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… — Ahmed Ben Bella
The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. — Shane Smith
If there's 10,000 people looking at the stocks and trying to pick winners, one in 10,000 is going to score, by chance alone, a great… — Merton Miller
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
I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful… — Brigitte Nielsen
There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears… — Edwidge Danticat
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it… — Pablo Picasso
The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a… — Chris Pratt

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