Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
To dislocate the functioning of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a riot because it can be longer-lasting,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
If all fossil fuel were to go POOF! tomorrow, the result would be a cataclysmic social upheaval, with food riots, warlords, shutdowns,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The creation of India and Pakistan were pyrrhic victories for their denizens because the political, socioeconomic, psychological, and culture havoc wreaked by… — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“With his head thrust forward like a ram, Baryba pushed his way through to the front. For some reason this was necessary,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had… — Alice Nutter Copy Share Image
I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to… — Naomi Wallace Copy Share Image
If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our society, and the thousands upon thousands of… — Seymour Krim Copy Share Image
The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
Soccer matches in Europe have riot police. Metal is just people sloshing around drunk and sloppy and having fun, and there's nothing… — Chris Reifert Copy Share Image
The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense… — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
Pussy Riot have certainly changed some people's assumptions about the role of political art and the relationship between the intelligentsia and the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Let it all out. If only I could. Letting it all out would involve me exploding like a firework, a beautiful riot… — Nick Burd Copy Share Image
When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
People often say, "Riots aren't revolutions." That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice,… — Helen Thompson Woolley Copy Share Image
Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties…and the striving for… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The creatures of the sea hold special mystery, and they are among the most exciting, graceful, and beautiful on Earth. Just consider… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
If (O.J. Simpson) is acquitted, I will renounce my citizenship. And if I converse with him at a cocktail party, I will… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
![“I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to…” quote by Naomi Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/917/naomi-wallace-53600_alternatives_i-d-been-reading-daniel-defoe-s-journal_2455493.jpg)
