Overthrow Quotes

“He crossed the floor to start rifling through one of the supply chests, pulling free a small silver bottle and ripping open the top. "Is this liquor? Because I want to be completely intoxicated when Abba gets wind that his children are plotting a coup in a fucking closet."
"That's weapons polish," Ali said quickly”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The Kingdom of Copper

“The system is corrupt," a young man on a bicycle shouted, "and if it cannot be changed it must be destroyed. The mastodon revolution is here and you must all choose which side of history you want to be on.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“The way you react in times of challenges will determine whether your challenges will weigh you down, or you will overthrow them.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

“The overthrow of beliefs is not immediately followed by the overthrow of institutions; rather, the new beliefs live for a long time in the now desolate and eerie house of their predecessors, which they themselves preserve, because of the housing shortage.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“A passionate tumultuous age will overthrow everything, pull everything down; but a revolutionary age, that is at the same time reflective and passionless, transforms that expression of strength into a feat of dialectics: it leaves everything standing but cunningly empties it of significance. Instead of culminating in a rebellion it reduces the inward reality of all relationships to a reflective tension which leaves everything standing but makes the whole of life ambiguous: so that everything continues to exist factually whilst by a dialectical deceit, privatissime, it supplies a secret interpretation- that it does not exist.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Present Age