“ A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. ”
- John Foster Dulles- Copy
- 1K
“ If we resort to lawlessness, the only thing we can hope for is civil war, untold bloodshed, and the end of our dreams. ”
- Archie Lee Moore- Copy
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“ The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment. ”
- Lyndon B. Johnson- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. ”
- George Washington- Copy
- 3.7K
“ When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did at least five or six takes of every scene, improvising every scene differently. He was a riot. ”
- Stephen Root- Copy
- 833
“ With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
- 357
“ A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden. ”
- Clifford Irving- Copy
- 2.4K
“ If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000. ”
- Tom Hayden- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. ”
- William Penn- Copy
- 894
“ Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 139
“ ARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamppost. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
- 71
“ The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 889
“ No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise. ”
- Alan Biole- Copy
- 942
“ Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I did children's theatre for three years, 1977-1979. We played at a school where three kids were killed in race riots that week. We entered the school under police escort. People threw bottles and debris at us on stage, but we continued our show about racism. ”
- Stephen Tobolowsky- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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