John Y. McKane Quotes

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

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

I would certainly say that. I don't want to see riots. I don't want to see problems.

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

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

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

Disorder and violence are, in fact, things that might check the pace of India's progress.

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there'll be additional violence.

It was a bad looking mob. It was animated by the essence of revolution.

The fires of discord are busy in every city. Redress is sought in the street, in demonstrations, parades and protests which create tensions and threaten violence. We face, therefore, a moral crisis as a country and as a people.

Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.

Why do we have to have another riot?

America cannot function if we are a society fueled by riots.

I was 14 when the Democratic convention in my hometown of Chicago erupted into violence. It was a tough year.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

There will be water and food fights everywhere.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.