John Dryden Quotes

Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

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

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

Rioting is not revolutionary.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

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

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

The pogroms are oil for the wheels of revolution.

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

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.

It is then a very unseasonable time to plead law, when swords are in the hands of the vulgare, or to think to restrain them with fear of punishments when they look after liberty and shake off all government.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

The world is in such a place of social unrest and there's so much violence.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

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

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.

After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party, had asked my people to take to the streets, the very existence of the federation would have been threatened.

Yet did that Antiochus, who was also called Dionysius, become an origin of troubles again.

I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that.

Panamanians live in a chronic state of insurrection and violence.