Paddy Ashdown Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

Rioting definitely brings attention to the situation at hand.

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

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

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

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

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

A demonstration sometimes doesn’t stop with expressing opinion….it moves to incitement to violence and then to 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.

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

Rioting is not revolutionary.

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

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

I was - the last protest I was at was in Genoa, where I got tear gassed, and I hate tear gas, and I hate being in crowds.

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

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word 'No.'

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents.