Coups Quote by Gene Sharp

“Heavy repression against the nonviolent defenders may also arouse stronger international opposition to the coup and mobilize inernational opinion and diplomatic and economic action…

— Gene Sharp

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

— Glenn Reynolds

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

— Jalal Talabani

If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

“A successful coup ain't a treason.”

— Toba Beta

“The first basic principle of ‪‎anti coup‬ defense is therefore to deny legitimacy to the putschists”

— Gene Sharp

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

— George W. Bush

It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern European…

— Paul Wolfowitz

Our military leaders don't seize power in coups; our soldiers and sailors don't go on strike for higher pay or benefits; our armed forces…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

Diplomacy can be a frustrating thing. I think the strategy can work, so long as the force is robust and the rules of engagement…

— George W. Bush

The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the…

— Stephen Kinzer

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in…

— Mahmoud Abbas