Overturn Quotes

53 Overturn quotes by 52 unique authors

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet… — Rick Boucher
But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered?… — Roger Cotes
While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners. — Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established… — Ralph Neas
A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and… — Rick Santorum
What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the… — Rand Paul
I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I… — Steven Pinker
President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom. — Mitt Romney
I have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that the Congress and state legislatures do have the ability and… — Bernie Sanders
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to… — Lysander Spooner
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for… — Ben Stein
As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under… — George Orwell
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic… — Boris Pasternak
Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world. — Alexandre Dumas
My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of… — China Mieville
Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe… — Dante Alighieri
When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want… — Julian Barnes
There are no unique postures and times and limitations that restrict our access to God. My relationship with God is intimate and personal. The Christian… — Ravi Zacharias
When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In… — Greg Graffin
In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established authority. — Robert Dallek

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