Henry Cisneros Quotes

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

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.

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

Without hope, the very fabric of our society will fall apart.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.

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.

During times of stress, despair and frustration, people become increasingly irrational, and they do things which they never think they are capable of. And so we see hideous brutality perpetrated by the most gentle people

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

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

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

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

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

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

We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day 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 creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.