Overturn Quotes

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I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn… — Michele Bachmann
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage;… — Georges Bataille
If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the… — Ian Anderson
When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state. — Alexis de Tocqueville
If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. — Samuel Johnson
Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the… — Cory Doctorow
An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with… — Joseph Addison
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
My position is that I am personally opposed to abortion, but I don't think I have a right to impose my view on the rest… — Joe Biden
I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible,… — Jose Mujica
Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when… — Selma LagerlÃ¶f
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any… — Thomas Paine
This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an… — James Baker
The wind cannot overturn a mountain. Temptation cannot touch the man Who is awake, strong and humble, Who masters hiself and minds the law. — Gautama Buddha
One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to… — Herodotus
We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the… — Paul Weyrich
Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need… — Richard Koch
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend… — Ruth Hubbard
I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my… — Terry Deary
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition. — Elihu Palmer

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