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When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed. — Sergei Lukyanenko

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it. — Abraham Lincoln

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. — Charles Darwin

Sin is a powerful dictator; it can overthrow even the most righteous. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary. — Douglas Wilson

In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow. — Victor Hugo

The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and again, you might earn the right to help overthrow the rest of us. — Rob Brezsny

Death is a great tyrant;
no one can overthrow him.
Life is a priceless ruby;
no one can afford it. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. — John Lyly

To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate. — Iris Murdoch

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one ... — Pearl S. Buck

How can you walk away," Connor finally says, "when they're about to overthrow the Cap-17 law? — Neal Shusterman

We're on our way to rescue a queen, overthrow an evil wizard, and win back a country.
Care to join us?
- Wolverine (Doomwar #1) — Jonathan Maberry

You have to learn how to stay in a good mood as you overthrow the sour, puckered hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality. — Rob Brezsny

What plan did he think I was hatching to overthrow their little world? — Stephenie Meyer

Military men would always overthrow one another, because they could, because they were all power drunk. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking. — Gertrude Stein

It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List. — Abbie Hoffman

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it. — Abraham Lincoln

With just the 'Carmagnole' to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the 'Marseillaise' and he will liberate the world. — Victor Hugo

Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics. — William Dwight Whitney

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. — Frances Wright

They want to hold on to you and your people. They have isolated the ones who might grow powerful and overthrow their debauched reign. — Walter Mosley

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. — William Shakespeare

The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives. — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?
As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government? — Josh Lanyon

This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government. — Bryan Fischer

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations. — Charles Darwin

As for his evil tidings,
Belshazzar's overthrow,
Why hurry to tell Belshazzar
What soon enough he would know? — Robert Frost

Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself. — Robert Waterman McChesney

The most famous of them all was the overthrow of the island of Atlantis. — Plato

Alone a termite is powerless, but in large numbers they overthrow entire buildings. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. — Niccolo Machiavelli

There are villains to overthrow, damsels to be saved ... This is no time to be laid low. — Nicole Sager

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit,
His waxen wings did mount above his reach,
And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.
— Christopher Marlowe

I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a pear like that would overthrow any god. — Edgar Degas

I see for Nature no defeat
In one tree's overthrow
Or for myself in my retreat
For yet another blow. — Robert Frost

The way you react in times of challenges will determine whether your challenges will weigh you down, or you will overthrow them. — Israelmore Ayivor

The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom. — Kate Grenville

If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it's our job to realize it and get down to business. — Steven Pressfield

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. — Benjamin Franklin

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before. — Nathan Myhrvold

This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people. — Yip Harburg

Every African has a responsibility to understand the system and work towards it's overthrow. — Walter Rodney

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow. — Robert Greene

Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents. — Arthur W. Pink

Give a Paris woman at bay four-and-twenty hours, and she will overthrow a ministry. — Honore De Balzac

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society. — Saint Augustine

A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow — Morris Sheppard

even the presidents of Harvard and Yale saw the War of Independence as part of God's design for the overthrow of Catholicism. — Karen Armstrong

Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue. — Philip Sidney

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

They've come to overthrow the court, sir! — Samuel Parris

Note to self: Overthrow government of magical Britain at earliest convenience. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher

If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. — Judi Bari

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy. — Karl Liebknecht

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics. — Russell Brand

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. — George Orwell

The Church is not called to overthrow government but to influence culture. — John Paul Warren

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em. — Gallagher

It just makes me mad. All the stupid arbitrary shit."
"It makes you want to overthrow the world."
"On a daily basis. — David Levithan

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror. — Euripides

Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim — Ilona Andrews

Bordran did not choose someone who would make a good king. He made someone who could overthrow a bad one." End — Kel Kade

Whose empire did you just overthrow?" My own. — Emery Lord

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent. — Pierre Trudeau

Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole ... patriarch! — Gloria Steinem