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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 see for Nature no defeatIn 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
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
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
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
Whose empire did you just overthrow?" My own.
— Emery Lord
