Coup Quotes

53 quotes by 50 authors

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
The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed… — Jose Saramago
The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in… — Bob Woodward
I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body… — Kurt Vonnegut
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has… — Henry Miller
Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grÃ¢ce- which is called passion. — Clarice Lispector
In a manner of speaking. As we intend for you to found a dynasty. And that dynasty will rule society until it has progressed enough… — James Patterson
If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism… — Alain de Botton
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she… — Lois McMaster Bujold
the marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and… — John Green
On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a… — Isabel Allende
Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen… — Isabel Allende
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a… — Jose Mujica
After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison. — Sushil Koirala
In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti - France and the United States - combined to back a military coup and send President… — Noam Chomsky
Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported. — Elliott Abrams

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