Overturn Quotes
53 quotes by 52 authors
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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
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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
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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
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When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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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
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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
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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 Lagerlöf
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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