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Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.
Eduardo Galeano
Democracy
Military
Name
Most
Coup
Done
Against
Wars
I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.
Philip Roth
Grace
Will
Beginning
Television
Computer
Computer Screen
Coup
Reader
Said
Screen
Movie
In The Beginning
Now
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos
Government
Aided
Coup
Trusted
Friends
American
American Government
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso
Work
Soul
Grace
Picture
Final
Give
Finish
Through
Coup
Well
Nonsense
Blow
Means
Rid
Painter
Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.
Hugo Chavez
People
Hundred
Hundred Years
Respected
Latin
Latin America
States
Sponsored
Most
Coup
Years
Governments
America
United
United States
Fascism in Uruguay did not begin just with the military coup of 1973, but years before, even when there was still a government with a constitution and parliament.
Jose Mujica
Government
Constitution
Before
Military
Parliament
Coup
Still
Years
Begin
Did
Just
Fascism
Even
I visited Libya in September 1996 for the 27th anniversary of the 'revolution' - a military coup that a 27-year-old Gadhafi led to topple the monarchy and since which he has ruled. Some were optimistic that Gadhafi's 'revolution' could herald a new Libya, but it didn't take long for his brutality to stamp out any such hopes.
Mona Eltahawy
Long
Revolution
September
Military
Ruled
Topple
Visited
Libya
Out
Hopes
Some
Brutality
Could
Take
He
Anniversary
Since
New
Coup
Were
His
Led
Optimistic
Any
Which
Stamp
Monarchy
On Aug. 19, 1953, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran became the first victim of a C.I.A. coup. Ten months later, on June 27, 1954, President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala became the second.
Stephen Kinzer
First
Victim
President
Later
Months
Minister
Ten
Prime
Prime Minister
Coup
Became
Iran
June
Second
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
World
Path
Military
Opened
Coup
Were
Years
Essentially
Africa
Two
Third
Third World
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
Time
Freedom
Struggle
Result
National
Military
Once
Everywhere
Triumphed
Leaders
Coup
Were
Time And Time
Authorities
Again
Agreed
Some consider the removal of Dr. Mohammed Morsi a coup by the army against an elected president. Others treat it as the second revolution, or the continuation of the January 25, 2011, revolution.
Ahmed Zewail
Army
Treat
Revolution
President
Others
Consider
Some
Removal
Coup
Continuation
Against
January
Elected
Mohammed
Dr
Second
The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth.
Alex Winter
Made
Range
Joe
Studio
Head
Budget
Coup
Because
Got
Making
Were
Which
Really
Roth
Even
Film
The Coup does not support the American flag.
Boots Riley
Support
Coup
Does
American
Flag
American Flag
The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'
Chris Pratt
Funny
Teacher
Women
Comedy
Think
Bad
Kinda
Crude
Opened
Major
Coup
Well
Audience
Up
American
Did
American Audience
Same
Being
Really
Bridesmaids
A neoliberal disaster is one who generates a mass incarceration regime, who deregulates banks and markets, who promotes chaos of regime change in Libya, supports military coups in Honduras, undermines some of the magnificent efforts in Haiti of working people, and so forth.
Cornel West
Change
People
Military
Chaos
Markets
Libya
Some
Magnificent
Mass
Supports
Haiti
Disaster
Coup
Efforts
Banks
Regime
Forth
Working
Incarceration
Working People
Who
Honduras
For all its pro-democracy rhetoric, the West rolled over to military coups in Egypt and Thailand.
Dominic Raab
Military
Over
Coup
West
Thailand
Egypt
Rhetoric
In Honduras, in particular, Hillary Clinton as Obama's secretary of state was instrumental in legitimizing the coup's subsequent death-squad regime.
Greg Grandin
State
Secretary
Obama
Particular
Coup
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Instrumental
Clinton
Subsequent
Regime
Honduras
When I saw that Laverne Cox was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, I totally lost it. It was a coup for the girls!
Hari Nef
Time
Girl
Lost
Saw
Magazine
Totally
Coup
Cover
Cox
There is no doubt whatsoever that the U.S. government, lead by Mr. Bush, planned and participated in a coup d'etat in Venezuela in April, 2002.
Hugo Chavez
Government
Doubt
April
No Doubt
Lead
Venezuela
Coup
Whatsoever
Bush
Planned
A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.
Jalal Talabani
Needs
You
Army
Courage
Sacrifice
Military
Find
Morale
Coup
Without
I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.
Jejomar Binay
Life
You
Every
Month
Kind
Some
Faced
Like
Coup
Where
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.
Jose Saramago
Work
Result
November
Important
Beginning
Revolution
Consider
Way
About
Could
Developed
Most
Coup
Period
Also
Came
The Most Important
Literary
Literary Work
Certain
Certain Way
Consequence
I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.
Kamisese Mara
Government
Think
Telephone
Has-Been
About
Parliament
Had
Coup
Democratic
Been
Overthrown
Done
Pacific
Then
Deputy
Union
Sat
Chairman
Round
Started
I believe together, with the OAS, everybody condemned the coup d'etat, and everybody is demanding that President Zelaya should go back to the presidency, and they should call for general elections and realize an election. That's what we want. And I believe that President Obama made the right decisions condemning the coup d'etat.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Together
Election
Made
Demanding
Believe
Presidency
Everybody
President
Back
President Obama
Obama
General
Coup
Call
Condemned
Condemning
Go
Want
Decisions
Realize
Elections
Should
Right
Right Decisions
My mom is elderly, and she's not doing too well, and I've literally never told her about 'Childrens Hospital,' because I fear that if she ever sees it, it will be like the coup de grace.
Megan Mullally
Mom
Grace
Fear
Will
Too
About
Sees
Hospital
Never
Like
Coup
She
Well
Because
Doing
Literally
Elderly
Ever
Her
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