Riot Quotes

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. View quote
Washington Irving
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. View quote
Audre Lorde
Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy, You've had about seven hours' sleep since Friday, No wonder you feel that lost sensation You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. View quote
Ogden Nash
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot. View quote
Debbie Allen
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available. View quote
Harold H. Greene
I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women. View quote
Yoko Ono
... but a dying culture invariable exhibits personal rudness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts of cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding with all the conflicting forces, following the general laws of violence of the picture... These force-lines must encircle and involve the spectator so that he will in a manner be forced to struggle himself with the persons in the picture. View quote
Umberto Boccioni
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 riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
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)
To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality and reeling from the delirious riot of religion, may doubtless be a charitable office. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I. View quote
A. E. Housman
Riot is the voice of the unheard. View quote
Maxine Waters
If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion. View quote
Maxine Waters
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time. View quote
Bitsie Tulloch
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. View quote
Clifford Irving
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 paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then. View quote
Debbie Allen
While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot. View quote
Frank Rich
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot. (George Weah)
We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough. View quote
Jerome Cavanagh
We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore. View quote
Louise Mensch
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. View quote
Stephen Root
My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet. View quote
Samuel Hoffenstein