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So many scientific certainties have been overthrown since our great-grandparents were alive, that’s part of the fun of the book. – Jim WATSON / AFP	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They're not horrified by the violence anymore, they're increasingly accepting it. And they're accepting too that our institutions, the institutions of the United States, are so defective that they need to be overthrown and rebuilt and renewed in some radical new way with violence, always, in the background as the tool by which this will be done. – David Frum	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Occasionally, it might be a good idea to be honest about American foreign policy, and that includes the fact that American Samoa has overthrown governments all over the world -- in Chile, in Guatemala, in Iran, and when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good, you acknowledge that, but you don't have to trade love letters with them. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The three aims of the tyrant are, one, the humiliation of his subjects; he knows that a mean-spirited man will not conspire against anybody; two, the creation of mistrust among them; for a tyrant is not to be overthrown until men begin to have confidence in one another -- and this is the reason why tyrants are at war with the good; they are under the idea that their power is endangered by them, not only because they will not be ruled despotically, but also because they are too loyal to one another and to other men, and do not inform against one another or against other men -- three, the tyrant desires that all his subjects shall be incapable of action, for no one attempts what is impossible and they will not attempt to overthrow a tyranny if they are powerless. – Aristotle	added by Normando 4 years ago
I don't think the overall family will be overthrown here. I think this is a chance to look at : Is the behavior of the royal family the right way forward ? And at a time when there's not a lot of money for our public services, is every penny they're spending being spent well ? – Luke Pollard	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The desire for control is not something particular to any time period, it is a fundamental tenet of autocratic governments that they are constantly paranoid about being overthrown. – Duncan Innes-Ker	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Rick Scott is doing Rick Scott best to impersonate Latin American dictators who have overthrown Democracies in Venezuela and Cuba, the Governor is using The Governor position to consolidate power by cutting at the very core of our Democracy. – Democratic Party	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If Assad is removed and overthrown, ISIS, al Qaeda, Al Nusra, these Islamic extremist groups will walk straight in and take over all of Syria. – Tulsi Gabbard	Found on CNN 7 years ago
In 1978 when the Shah was overthrown, the United States government froze the funds of Cubic Defense, the terror victims came to court to demand the frozen funds be used to pay off their unsatisfied judgments against Iran. – Nitsana Darshan-Leitner	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Jean Bertrand Aristide Haitian president elected by large majority, twice overthrown by U.S. supported forces. Take my hand. If you see me stumble, hold me up. If I feel you weaken, I will support you. Let us trust one another, keep faith with one another, and never falter. Let us keep the lamp of solidarity lit, and move forward. – Hannah Arendt	added by anonymous 8 years ago
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. – Simms	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will really work with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 14 years ago

So many scientific certainties have been overthrown since our great-grandparents were alive, that’s part of the fun of the book.

– Jim WATSON / AFP

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They're not horrified by the violence anymore, they're increasingly accepting it. And they're accepting too that our institutions, the institutions of the United States, are so defective that they need to be overthrown and rebuilt and renewed in some radical new way with violence, always, in the background as the tool by which this will be done.

– David Frum

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Occasionally, it might be a good idea to be honest about American foreign policy, and that includes the fact that American Samoa has overthrown governments all over the world -- in Chile, in Guatemala, in Iran, and when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good, you acknowledge that, but you don't have to trade love letters with them.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The three aims of the tyrant are, one, the humiliation of his subjects; he knows that a mean-spirited man will not conspire against anybody; two, the creation of mistrust among them; for a tyrant is not to be overthrown until men begin to have confidence in one another -- and this is the reason why tyrants are at war with the good; they are under the idea that their power is endangered by them, not only because they will not be ruled despotically, but also because they are too loyal to one another and to other men, and do not inform against one another or against other men -- three, the tyrant desires that all his subjects shall be incapable of action, for no one attempts what is impossible and they will not attempt to overthrow a tyranny if they are powerless.

– Aristotle

added by Normando
4 years ago

I don't think the overall family will be overthrown here. I think this is a chance to look at : Is the behavior of the royal family the right way forward ? And at a time when there's not a lot of money for our public services, is every penny they're spending being spent well ?

– Luke Pollard

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The desire for control is not something particular to any time period, it is a fundamental tenet of autocratic governments that they are constantly paranoid about being overthrown.

– Duncan Innes-Ker

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Rick Scott is doing Rick Scott best to impersonate Latin American dictators who have overthrown Democracies in Venezuela and Cuba, the Governor is using The Governor position to consolidate power by cutting at the very core of our Democracy.

– Democratic Party

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If Assad is removed and overthrown, ISIS, al Qaeda, Al Nusra, these Islamic extremist groups will walk straight in and take over all of Syria.

– Tulsi Gabbard

Found on CNN
7 years ago

In 1978 when the Shah was overthrown, the United States government froze the funds of Cubic Defense, the terror victims came to court to demand the frozen funds be used to pay off their unsatisfied judgments against Iran.

– Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Jean Bertrand Aristide Haitian president elected by large majority, twice overthrown by U.S. supported forces. Take my hand. If you see me stumble, hold me up. If I feel you weaken, I will support you. Let us trust one another, keep faith with one another, and never falter. Let us keep the lamp of solidarity lit, and move forward.

– Hannah Arendt

added by anonymous
8 years ago

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

– Simms

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will really work with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

– Aldous Huxley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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