Steve Jobs Quotes

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

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

Once people start throwing wet stuff, I go inside.

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.

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.

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

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

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. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

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.

If people go out and start protests for everything, then entire Tamil Nadu will become a grave yard!

While staging demonstrations against wrongs, please do not cross the line, and see to it that no situation is allowed to turn into a riot.

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

We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so.

The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior.

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.

It will make the Tea Party look like a tea party.

I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.

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

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

Now [after election] where it goes into violence, I have a zero tolerance for riots.

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