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Quotes About Unrest

The Chinese government sometimes shuts down the Internet and mobile services in specific areas where unrest occurs.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.
~ Loretta Lynch
Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination, humiliation, and despair.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
It is man - whether believer or non-believer - who is responsible for global unrest. And it is human beings who have to learn to co-exist in the 21st century, outside of divisive social constructs, religious or otherwise.
~ Mehdi Hasan
I was one of those students that would protest and think the unrest will help create a revolution.
~ Vivek Agnihotri
One of the lasting consequences of the unrest of the late 1960s was the removal of adult authority from the lives of undergraduates at many colleges. And, as a consequence, residential communities developed much as students themselves wanted them to.
~ Parker Conrad
If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.
~ Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
Jihadist organizations attempt to exploit discontent among marginalized groups in unstable societies.
~ Tedros Adhanom
In all my life I have never experienced such orgies of murder, arson and looting as I have witnessed during the past 16 days with the RIC Auxiliaries. It baffles description. And we are supposed to be officers and gentlemen.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
The IRA studied Americans to understand what made them angry, to learn how to think and speak and write like them and, in the fullness of time, to spearhead a new kind of political warfare against the United States. "Our task," one of the Saint Petersburg trolls later told a Russian reporter, "was to set Americans against their own government: to provoke unrest and discontent." From the outset, the mission was to incite a civil war within the American political system.
~ Tim Weiner
Quite simply, the goal of terrorism is to create terror and fear. Fear undermines faith in the establishment. It weakens the enemy from within . . . causing unrest in the masses. Write this down. Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's façade of infallibility, and you remove its people's faith." Loss of faith . . .
~ Dan Brown
Media is the right arm of anarchy
~ Dan Brown
Quite simply, the goal of terrorism is to create terror and fear. Fear undermines faith in the establishment. It weakens the enemy from within . . . causing unrest in the masses. Write this down. Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's façade of infallibility, and you remove its people's faith." Loss of faith . . . Is
~ Dan Brown
Chechnya is a pressure cooker of Islamist anger
~ Dennis Prager
As the strife-ridden year of 1932 approached its end, Berlin was full of cabals, and of cabals within cabals.
~ William L. Shirer
Revolutionary situations do not present themselves to us only after we have made perfect preparations for them. They arise suddenly when the old order is unable to maintain its rule.
~ Christopher Day
The current extra-parliamentary protest movement of the indignados in Spain may potentially make some healthy inroads into this.
~ Helen Graham
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
~ Henry Havelock Ellis
America is seething at all times. It's like a Gaza Strip that's three thousand miles long.
~ Henry Rollins
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Revolutions are always verbose.
~ Leon Trotsky
But there is no calm soul in Russia.
~ Leonid Andreyev
This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort.
~ Tito Colliander