Overthrown Quotes

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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the… — Joseph Addison
In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after… — Luis Suarez
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more… — Albert Einstein
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. — Albert Einstein
The loveliest theories are being overthrown by these damned experiments; it's no fun being a chemist anymore. — Justus von Liebig
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny. — Euripides
Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. — William Shakespeare
I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan, and try not to get overthrown. — Dwight Gooden
Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not… — Friedrich Nietzsche
All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper… — Mao Zedong
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy — Jacques Barzun
A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a… — Walter Lippmann
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing… — Jim Butcher
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
Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain… — John Angell James
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. — William Gilmore Simms
If princes and kings were not exalted they might be overthrown. — Laozi
A poetâ€™s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but… — Walter Martin

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