Coups Quotes

• ¿Terminar una obra? ¿Terminar un cuadro? ¡Qué tontería! Terminarlo significa acabar con él, matarlo, despojarlo de su alma, darle el golpe de gracia, tanto para el pintor como para el cuadro.

  Pablo Picasso

  Arte, Media, Golpe

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• Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Military, War, Names

  "Eduardo Galeano, Chronicler of Latin America’s “Open Veins,” on His New Book 'Children of the Days'". Interview With Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2013.

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• To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Firsts, Garments, Legitimacy

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.399, Random House

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• No hace mucho, si se quería tomar el poder político en un país bastaba con controlar el ejército y la policía. Hoy en día, sólo en los países más atrasados los generales fascistas siguen utilizando tanques para dar un golpe de Estado. Si un país ha alcanzado un alto grado de industrialización, todo el panorama cambia..... Hoy un país pertenece a quien controla las comunicaciones.

  Umberto Eco

  Country, Communication, Army

  "Il costume di casa" (1973); as translated in "Travels in Hyperreality" (1986),

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

  Jalal Talabani

  Courage, Military, Army

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• Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Government, Action

  Fuente: www.russianembassy.org

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• Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.

  Vladimir Putin

  Mean, Action, Legitimate Power

  Fuente: www.cbsnews.com

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• I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Funny, War, Missing

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• Yo mismo siento que nuestro país, por cuya Constitución luché en una guerra justa, bien podría haber sido invadido por marcianos y ladrones de cuerpos. A veces desearía que así hubiera sido. Lo que ha sucedido, sin embargo, es que ha sido tomado por medio del golpe de estado más sórdido, de baja comedia y al estilo de los Keystone Cops que se pueda imaginar.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  País, Guerra, Tomado

  "Custodians of chaos" by Kurt Vonnegut, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Country, Frustration, People

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• In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Militar, Años, Dos

  "Para Ahmed Ben Bella, la liberación de los pueblos del Sur sigue sin conseguirse". Entrevista con Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. 9 de mayo de 2006.

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• Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Military, Struggle, Leader

  "Para Ahmed Ben Bella, la liberación de los pueblos del Sur sigue sin conseguirse". Entrevista con Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. 9 de mayo de 2006.

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• The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Views, Voice, Political

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• The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

  José Saramago

  Important, Way, Revolution

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million

  Al Jardine

  Safe Haven, Thinking, California

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• A coup consists of the infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder.

  Edward Luttwak

  Government, Used, States

  Edward Luttwak (1979). “Coup D'etat: A Practical Handbook”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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• We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.

  Brit Hume

  Couple, Differences, Helping

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• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  Kamisese Mara

  Military, Two, Fiji

  Informe al Presidente Ganilau, 15 de mayo de 1992.

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• It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

  Gore Vidal

  Ideas, Ironic, Conspiracy

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Russia, Revolution, Happened

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). "As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations", Robson Book Ltd

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• My biggest disappointment was, of course, the coup attempts, ... The economy was proceeding very well, but in 1989 we had the most serious coup attempt and ... many of the investors who were set to come here had to tell me that they chose to go to other countries because of the uncertainty brought about by (the coup attempt.) If that had not happened, I'm sure our economy would just be booming today.

  Corazón Aquino

  Country, Disappointment, Today

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• The Washington Times wrote a story questioning the authenticity of some of the suggestions made about me in Silent Coup. But as a believer in the First Amendment, I believe they have more than a right to air their views.

  Bob Woodward

  Believe, Air, Views

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• I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Country, Democracy, Mature

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• There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself

  Gene Sharp

  Strong, Public Opinion, Defense

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• I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

  Jane Goodall

  Teaching, Mean, Brilliant

  "Jane Goodall on Bigfoot, Chimpanzees and Her Education". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, blankonblank.org. 2002.

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