Best 33 quotes in «riot quotes» category

The riot had taken on a beauty of its own now. Arcs of gasoline fire under the crescent moon. Crimson tracer in mystical parabolas. Phosphorescence from the barrels of plastic bullet guns. A distant yelling like that of men below decks in a torpedoed prison ship. The scarlet whoosh of Molotovs intersecting with exacting surfaces. Helicopters everywhere: their spotlights finding one another like lovers in the Afterlife. And all this through a lens of oleaginous Belfast rain.

The riot squad that are arresting the Mauna Kea protectors are in for an education on the biological toxicity of the 13,796 feet summit when they transport the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) up the mountain. For some of them, they may later develop the long term effects of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).

What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a thick cotton blanket of clouds, and the air is vapor-filled and hazy with a concentration of blooming scent. The world is somnolent and cool, in a temporary reprieve from the normal heat and radiance. But the sensation of illusion is strong. Because the sun can break through the clouds at any moment . . . What a soft thoughtful time. In this illusory gloom, like a night-blooming flower, let your imagination bloom in a riot of color.

We have the right to refuse. This is our right, yours and mine. You can't know all the laws by heart, you don't know what will happen if you refuse. But you have to try... The law can be bent, and the degree of flexibility is something you can only test in practice.

We have the right to refuse. This is our right, yours and mine. You can't know all the laws by heart, you don't know what will happen if you refuse. But you have to try.

White supremacy is a black person telling the people of Baltimore to chill out and try peace, thinking they came up with that thought all on their own.

Just say anything without even caring if it is true. That is how riots start.

I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.

Winter arrived with December, and the world continued to suffer the loss of the Internet and most forms of communication. Supply chains were disrupted. The only mass form of personal communication was the letter, and postal workers were having their worst year ever, as they were actually meeded. Food was becoming scarcer and more expensive, as was fuel for vehicles and heating. Major cities experienced riots on a regular basis, spurred on by religious fervor and want. Civilization was on the brink of collapse.

People often say, "Riots aren't revolutions." That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution that started without a riot.

Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die In L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right)

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

The only riot I’m okay with is a zoot suit riot.

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsals.

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

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

We have nothing to fear but fear itself...and of course the boogieman.

Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads.

America. Where property damage is a greater offense than genocide.

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know.

He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey.

Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.

I asked Raghav, as we were looking over the wasteland, if the Muslims they burnt would beg for their lives. "Yes they would say, Have mercy on us. But we were filled with such hate; we had Radhabi Chawl on our minds. And even if there was one who said, Let him go, there would be ten others saying, No kill him. And so we had to kill him. "But what if he was innocent?" Raghav looked at me. "His biggest crime was that he was Muslim.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

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

If you create an environment of conflicts, I don’t think you will enjoy peace yourself.

It did not take long before there was a full-scale riot on West 125 Street.

It was still hard for her to believe what was happening. One moment she was eating fried chicken and the next there was a full-blown riot on the street. The rest was like a crazy roller coaster ride from hell.

In the police’s defense, the Riot aren’t wearing their cuts, but I’m disappointed. The Riot watching the store are big names and we know them by face and road name in order to stay safe. I’d think the police would have done their homework, especially with Violet’s life on the line.

I knew such a woman once, She gave me everything. Her love like a soft riot singing, She knew how to shine.