Top 267 Overthrow Quotes & Sayings

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

Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.

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

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

Life may have plans that will completely overthrow your pettiness.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

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

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Second-wave feminists didn't look for an overthrow of patriarchy. Instead, they analyzed what they were up against and fought it in all of its varied manifestations.

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

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

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

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.

The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.

My position on democracy is really clear. Any attempt to overthrow the country is a betrayal to our unity and is treason.

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.

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

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

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

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

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.

They've come to overthrow the court, sir!

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

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

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

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing in its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.

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

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

[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.

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

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

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

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

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

Did Hillary Clinton short-circuit when she advocated for the overthrow of Muamar Gaddafi and Libya is now an Islamic State stranglehold?

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

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

Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

That is what I want: I want a better Saudi Arabia. I don't see myself as an opposition. I'm not calling for the overthrow of the regime, because I know it's not possible and is too risky, and there is no one to overthrow the regime. I'm just calling for reform of the regime.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

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

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

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

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

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

Why is Assad more responsible for all the deaths in Syria than those fighting to overthrow and kill him?

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

If vanity does not entirely overthrow the virtues, at least it makes them all totter.

Choice is a national instinct. This capitalist bedrock of our prosperity and security is threatened by a Labour Party that wants to overthrow the whole system.

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

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

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

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.