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Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions. — John McCarthy

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

To write a blues song
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves. — Etheridge Knight

I want to see riots! I want to see the kind of riots where cab drivers are afraid to pick up white people! I want to see this guy! — Bill Maher

Riots followed hunger like thunder follows lightning. — Gary A. Ballard

In Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.
The Second American Revolution. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit. — Rick Riordan

We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame. — Eberhard Arnold

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. — Jean Cocteau

I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods ... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible. — Gary Locke

Riots are started by the police and blamed on dissidents. — Marty Rubin

There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots. — Victor Hugo

If every major city in America went up in the flames of race riots tonight, how ready would you be? — Billy Roper

I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots. — Keith Stanfield

A flock of butterflies riots in my stomach and steals my breath. — Stephenie Meyer

The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow. — William Allen White

If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets, — Chris Rock

I once had been in the middle of a mass chaos and terrible riots.
There, I witnessed how men were truly such as beasts unleashed. — Toba Beta

You know, the guys there were so beautiful - they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago. — Allen Ginsberg

I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots. — Jay Griffiths

Those who are quiet will always cause riots. — Dr. Dre

Who's responsible for the riots? The rioters! — Dan Quayle

Riots are the voices of the unheard. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Even today, you can still see the empty lots that the riots left in their wake. — Niall Ferguson

I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities. — Lou Reed

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The most dangerous thing about student riots is that adults take them seriously. — Georges Pompidou

Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge. — Vinita Kinra

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots. — Jessica Savitch

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed. — Ross Kemp

The riots were a turning point in Ben-Gurion's — Anita Shapira

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

When people believe that the local government and economy serve their needs. There is little desire to protest. — Auliq Ice

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots. — Paddy Ashdown

Is socializing all that great? Riots are socializing. Arguably, more damage is done and time wasted in company with others than alone. — Anneli Rufus

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me. — Tom Hanks

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world. — Madeleine Thien

The only riots were the people trying to get tickets. — John Guare

We have the riots we deserve. — Alain Badiou

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

The cause of the riots were the rioters — Dan Quayle

The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters. — Rush Limbaugh

When the city burns down and people are shot dead, people think of a riot. — Allan Dare Pearce

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him. — Frank Herbert

Silence prevailed everywhere, like the gloomy dumbness after the riots in the city. — Girdhar Joshi

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

I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots. — Michael J. Saylor

We should've
thrown fucking riots
the first time they
had us ring up
and bag our own
groceries — Phil Volatile

No one wants to see self-destructive riots because there's no future in riots. — Jesse Jackson

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. — Henry Louis Gates