Ahmed Nazif Quotes

There will never be quietness in this country till half a dozen of you be hanged or banished.

[On urban unrest:] The only way to get respect is to be willing to use violence.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest

The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.

If I wasn't President, I'd be out on the streets myself and would probably take a swing at any Khomeini demonstrator I could get my hands on.

Mass action culminates in armed insurrection and civil war.

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

Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow.

This is an unlawful march. It will not be allowed to continue…. Troopers Advance!

Politics for me started in violence.

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

Rioting definitely brings attention to the situation at hand.

I was arrested when I was 19 for inciting a riot.

Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.

One: demonstrations always crash. And two: the probability of them crashing goes up exponentially with the number of people watching.

Rioting is not revolutionary.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

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

The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.

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

If it takes a bloodbath, then let's get it over with.

Unrest has its reasons.

People do not have the right to stir up riots and racial hatred, encourage mass hysteria or heap abuse on religion any more than they do to rob, rape, cheat or kill.