public unrest Quotes

I'm not surprised that people are unsettled because of war. The enemy has got a powerful tool, and that is to get on your TV screen by killing innocent people. And my job is to continue to remind the people it's worth it, we're not going to retreat hastily, and we're not going to pull out of there before the job is done. And we have got a plan for victory.

Out of the bars and into the streets!

Facts and events … have been too strong for the Government.

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

Most people in protest mobs are pretty sincere and don't want to fight cops or break things.

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

When violence strikes [riots], then those in public responsibility have an immediate ... job, not to analyze, but to end disorder.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

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.

For a quarter-century, and changing only very recently, the main IMF prescription has been budgetary belt-tightening for patients much too poor to own belts. IMF led austerity has frequently resulted in riots, coups, and the collapse of public services.

I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.

Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.

Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need to develop and widely disseminate law enforcement best practices for responding to public demonstrations.

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

Americans have a tendency to exalt the concept of a popular uprising.

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

I told Donald Trump, 'This isn't a campaign, this is a movement.' Look at what's happening. The American people are not happy with their government.

The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

Any attempt at demonstrating (rallies) will immediately result in adequate and strict reaction by the armed forces.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.

We have the riots we deserve.