I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.
October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.
Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.
I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a se...
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
Jim Gordon: We need reinforcements! TAC teams, SWATs, riot cops! Loeb: Gordon! Gordon! All the city's riot police are on the island with you. Jim Gordon: Well, they're completely incapacitated!
Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.
We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fea...
A riot is the language of the unheard.
We shouldn't need riot police at schools.
I'd like to cause a little riot in skating.
Riots are started by the police and blamed on dissidents.
My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.
Fuck me, I thought. I can do magic.
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
Barry: Let 'em riot. We're Sonic-fuckin'-Death Monkey.
Patrick Bateman: 'Oh Africa Brave Africa'. It was... a laugh riot.
Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.
