Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

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

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

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.

Large crowds have gathered in the streets. The pervading spirit among the masses is resistance to Lincoln’s administration, and everywhere that determination is manifest.

The actions I took at a time of national crisis in 2003 were necessary to protect lives and property and restore law and order. Regrettably, lives were lost among both the government forces and armed protesters.

A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.

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

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.

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.

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

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

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.