Coup Quotes
53 quotes by 50 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.
— Clarice Lispector
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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After the 1960 royal coup, I spent time in India - including three years in prison.
— Sushil Koirala
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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
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Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.
— Elliott Abrams
Who Wrote These Coup Quotes
50 authors contributed a total of 53 Coup Quotes, led by these top contributors: