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Quotes About Rioters

The cause of the riots were the rioters
~ Dan Quayle
The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Although 118 rioters were arrested, a Cook County grand jury did not indict a single one. The grand jury, however, did indict Harvey Clark, his real estate agent, his NAACP attorney, and the white landlady who rented the apartment to him as well as her attorney on charges of inciting a riot
~ Richard Rothstein
Threats to the rule of law come not only from rioters and looters in the streets, but also from activist judges on the bench.
~ Tom Fitton
Reader, you are set to embark on an adventure about one hidden treasure, two bare-knuckle boxers, three enemies and four hundred and eighty-three rioters. It is told by an ignorant and prejudiced author - me.
~ Julia Golding
In Donald Trump, the left has found the one crime they're willing to prosecute to the fullest: The events of January 6 - and the one set of criminals they're willing to throw the book at The Capitol Hill rioters.
~ Will Cain
the killing of dangerous Rioters, by any private Persons, who cannot otherwise suppress them, or defend themselves from Them, inasmuch as every private Person seems to be authorised by the Law to arm himself for the Purposes aforesaid.
~ Stephen P. Halbrook
Many of the rioters were obviously bourgeois, the scions of privileged families, as have been the leaders of so many destructive movements in modern history. That same evening, I dined in an expensive restaurant and saw there a fellow diner whom I had observed a few hours before joyfully heaving a brick through a window. How much destruction did he think his country could bear before his own life might be affected, his own existence compromised?
~ Theodore Dalrymple
The surge became a roaring, shouting, screaming mass of rioters; at that moment, the sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.
~ Dan Simmons
The authorities in Yorkshire have rounded up their rioters, and divided them into those to be charged with affray and manslaughter, and those to be indicted for murder and rape. Rape? Since when do food riots involve rape? But I forget, this is Yorkshire."530
~ Hilary Mantel
The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.
~ Unknown
Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.
~ Unknown
On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
~ Ben Aaronovitch, Midnight Riot
Those who care about truth know that empowering and encouraging those who support rioters is the wrong course of action.
~ Chad Wolf
Yuri had milled around watching along with the rest of the rioters last night, mesmerized with the destruction. The flames had lit something inside him, something that felt joyful at the sight of a young terrified Ivet reduced to a bloody chunk of unrecognizable meat beneath the crowd's clubs. He had yelled encouragement until his throat was hoarse.
~ Peter F. Hamilton