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Quotes About Tear gas

Because I'm a doctor, I tried to help whenever someone was injured. People were choking on tear gas and we'd pour cola on their faces, which counters the effect of gas. Their faces were sticky and glistening.
~ Wendy Pearlman
Hooligans under the attire of security personnel shed tear gas and do lathi charge on the ordinary protesters, but as usual the top farmers leaders escape unhurt.
~ Raneshwar Sing Kishan
The Germans sometimes chose to disguise mustard with xylyl bromide, a tear gas that smells like lilac, and so it came to pass in the wartime spring that men ran in terror from a breeze scented with blossoming lilac shrubs.
~ Richard Rhodes
Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.
~ Robert B. Laughlin
The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.
~ Sayed Kashua
I just couldn't believe that the police would fire tear gas into what had been a peaceful protest. I was running around, face burning, and nothing I saw looked like America to me.
~ DeRay Mckesson
I was - the last protest I was at was in Genoa, where I got tear gassed, and I hate tear gas, and I hate being in crowds.
~ Noreena Hertz
Q: What sort of farts do you get by mixing beans and onions? A: Tear gas.
~ Scott McNeely
People have a good reason to be afraid of tear gas, considering it's a banned agent of war under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention. Here's the catch - there's a clause in the treaty that includes an exception for domestic use. Yes, it's illegal for the U.S. military to use tear gas against ISIS, but cool to use against American citizens.
~ Abby Martin
With all the risk and danger television sprays at us each day like tear gas, it occurs to me they should simply open each evening's show by saying, Welcome to the Channel Two News; we're very surprised you made it through another day.
~ Thom Rutledge
He knew nothing about Texas trailer law but he suspected that there was no really effective way of removing a person from a trailer in the Rio Grande Valley without the use of firearms or tear gas.
~ Charles Portis
I shuddered at the mention of Mrs. Steiger. What's that about? Ranger asked. Mrs. Steiger is the Antichrist. Damn, Ranger said. I left my Antichrist gun at home. Looks like you brought everything else. Never know when you'll need some tear gas. If we have to gas Mrs. Steiger, itll ruin my chances of being Miss Burg in the Mayflower parade.
~ Janet Evanovich
Somehow the government has convinced the American people that using tear gas is perfectly harmless, despite stark evidence to the contrary.
~ Abby Martin