Harold H. Greene Quotes

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

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

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

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

We are creating a generation that is losing hope, and when people don't have hope then they have nothing to lose. And when people have nothing to lose it's a short step to rob or loot or riot or burn or even kill.

Miserable news from Paris. Another Revolution, barricades, the troops of the line fraternizing with the insurgent National Guards, two Generals shot, to more in the hands and tender mercies of the beastly cowardly Paris mob. Those Parisians are the scum of the earth, and Paris is the crater of the volcano, France, and a bottomless pit of revolution and anarchy.

The masses are principally to be feared because they fly out ever and anon into violence; and from plundering they proceed to the flat levelling of estates.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

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

Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

We paid a big price for not stopping it -- that is the looting and the security -- because it established an atmosphere of lawlessness. We never had enough troops on the ground

Mass action culminates in armed insurrection and civil war.

We should get inside, beat up the police and bust up the whole building. Where are your guns and bombs?

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

This don't go here. [A major riot ensued.]

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

If you are not willing to spill blood between elections, you’ll spill it on Election Day, and it’ll be yours.

Rebellions broke out, from the full-scale political revolution of Dorr’s rebellion in Rhode Island to urban violence and protest, often by out of work whites taking out their anger on African Americans or Irish Americans. In response, leaders had to come to terms with the role of force in a democracy.

Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the everyday news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana; they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creatures of climate … neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding states…. Such are the effects of mob law, and such are the scenes becoming more and more frequent in this land so lately famed for love of law and order

Americans have always understood the danger of mobs. They are always dangerous; they are always demonic.

I just think it's really upsetting when you see a community just go out and burn down stores and trash cars.