Overthrow Quotes

130 quotes by 115 authors

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he… — George Orwell
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded,… — Valerie Solanas
I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control… — W. Cleon Skousen
[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority. — Glenn Reynolds
I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and more powerfully promoted… — Ezra Taft Benson
I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations. — Charles Darwin
We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however… — Chaim Weizmann
Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during… — Thomas Paine
Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch! — Gloria Steinem
To say that we are able by our own efforts to think good thoughts or give God spiritual obedience before we are spiritually regenerate is… — John Owen
The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which… — Giuseppe Mazzini
If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, itâ€™s our job to realize it and get down to… — Steven Pressfield
It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of… — Margaret Thatcher
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to… — Peter Medawar
China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a… — Deng Xiaoping
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no… — H. L. Mencken
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow… — Eric Hobsbawm
We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we… — Ernst Toller

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