Best Riot Thoughts
185 Riot quotes by 159 unique authors
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Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.
— Ashok K. Banker
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We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the…
— Hermann Hesse
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A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to burn it to…
— John Flanagan
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Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms…
— Tamora Pierce
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But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Might not hurt you to pick up a book, just as an experiment." Whatever. I looked up the definition for 'nerd' in the dictionary. Know…
— Brandon Mull
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...the whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet...
— Jonathan Maberry
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great…
— Samuel Beckett
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But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of…
— Lauren Oliver
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Sometimes I think maybe they were right all along, the people on the other side in Zombieland. Maybe it would be better if we didn't…
— Lauren Oliver
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On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
— Ben Aaronovitch
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I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight...…
— Alfred Stieglitz
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The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.
— Tupac Shakur
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Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be…
— Saint Ambrose
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The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl…
— Josephine Baker
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I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.
— Bitsie Tulloch
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To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of new energy, younger…
— Kathleen Hanna
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Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards.…
— Diane Ackerman
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Our wild boar shoot at our home in Germany is always a riot because we invite lots of friends. We spend the day out in…
— Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
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I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in…
— Toyin Odutola
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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,…
— Tom Hayden
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The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and…
— Debbie Allen
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This is not the end, this is not the beginning. Just a voice like a riot rocking every revision. But you listen to the tone…
— Linkin Park
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Suffering and sacrificing crying when my family dying but I know there in the stars shining looking at me fighting igniting riot with fire lighting…
— Jonathan Croft
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He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
— Norman Tebbit
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