Arab Quote by Eskinder Nega

Characteristically, however, the overthrow of the dictator simply means that there will be another dictator. ... the policies they follow will probably not be…

— Gordon Tullock

We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really…

— Anonymous

The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible.…

— Shimon Peres

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what…

— Madeleine Albright

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

— Pearl S. Buck

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain…

— Dionysius of Halicarnassus

If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic Islamist groups,…

— David Ignatius

It was right to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It was the regime itself that was a threat. I think in hindsight, what I would have…

— John Bolton

“Revolutions can even be faux revolutions when, through the careful manipulation of counterrevolutionary forces, they demand not reform but the restoration of retrograde power…

— Chris Hedges

A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon…

— Friedrich Engels

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

— William Powell

Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.

— Augusto Pinochet