Riot Quotes

Causing a riot is what I do best.

— Melina Marchetta

The spirits run riot in youth.

— Ovid

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

— Maxine Waters

“Riot is the language of the unheard.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

— Anonymous

Well, the clown suit is a riot, too.

— Michael Chiklis

“One riot, one cowdog.”

— John R. Erickson

The cause of the riots were the rioters

— Dan Quayle

My worst memory is living through the 1989 riot in Huntingdon Prison.

— Nick Yarris

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

— Ambrose Bierce

“When you lived in the funhouse, the laff riot just never stopped.”

— Stephen King

We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

— Noel Gallagher

...the whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet...

— Jonathan Maberry

“A police officer is paid to be attacked by angry people.”

— Steven Magee

“To riot or not to riot, that is the question.”

— Steven Magee

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

— Dr. Dre

“I don't start riots. I start ideas, influence thought, and incite intelligent actions.”

— Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Hey, I’m not judging. I’m familiar with IT-relations. Just wait until you meet our spaceship. She’s a riot.”

— Marissa Meyer

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

— Saul Williams

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

— Jerome Cavanagh

An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.

— Xenocrates

If I keep doing films like 'The Riot Club' they're going to think I'm a posh git.

— Freddie Fox

I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.

— Vladimir Putin

In preventing a riot and dispersing a crowd, the Crucifixion is an example of cathartic victimization.

— Rene Girard

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure…

— Alex Garland

I think that we've got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard. And, what is it that America…

— Martin Luther

...in your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot,…

— Jerry Rubin

Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes…

— John Hope Bryant

Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking.…

— Saint Ambrose

Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick.…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering…

— Hermann Hesse

“How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in…

— John Keats

I was quite surprised when I started looking at the lyrics for 'Punk Prayer'. Given its brutal style, I did not expect…

— Moddi

For years now I have run a kitchen-sink punk salon in my house, called Salon du Gay. In the early days, people…

— Beth Ditto

I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street.…

— Ian MacKaye

Brian De Palma was one of the rare directors who wanted us all to go to dailies. It was like a party.…

— P. J. Soles

Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put…

— Tamora Pierce

But I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten…

— Steve Almond

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory;…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it…

— Sri Aurobindo