Coups Quotes
More Coups Quotes
J'aime à réver, mais ne veux pasQu'à coups d'épingle on me réveille.
jacques delille— I love to dream, but do not wishTo have a pin prick rouse me.
— La Conversation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 815-16.
Sitiveni Rabuka, chief instigator of two military coups in 1987 and Prime Minister (1992-1999):
ratu sir kamisese mara— "When he brought it up again in the television interview, I thought it was very unbecoming of a national leader and of a statesman." (2 July 2001, responding to Mara's televised allegations that Rabuka had been a party to the 2000 coup).
— "In 1987 he called me an angry young man and I can say he is an angry ... old man. The mana he thought he enjoyed on his own in leadership he sees now can be enjoyed by Chaudhry, Rabuka, Reddy."
It's really a therapeutic experience for me to begin to write about the coup because I was involved in the 1987 coup and in particular the 2000 coup. For someone who was involved in all the coups it has been difficult for me to open up and write. The fact that I am able to write marks a turning point for me.
— Interview, 19 May 2005, about his book, Speight of Violence (coauthored with two others)
