Quotes About Unrest

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.

You have heard tales of the 'jacquerie' beginning in the villages?

What the journalist Alex Massie wrote in The Spectator offers a warning beyond Britain: If you spend days, weeks, months, years telling people that they are under threat, that their country has been stolen from them, that they have been betrayed and sold down the river . . . that their problem is they're not sufficiently mad as hell, then at some point, in some place something or someone is going to snap.

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Economic crises breed war.

The pot that had simmered for fifty years boiled over. Colliers and miners, furnacemen and tram-road labourers were flooding down the valley to the Chartists' rendezvous: men from Dowlais under the Guests, Cyfartha under the Crawshays, Nantyglo under Bailey and a thousand forges and bloomeries in the hills: men of the farming Welsh, the Staffordshire specialists and the labouring Irish were taking to arms.

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

Set in a nameless colonial country, in an unspecified era, Katie Kitamura's second novel tracks the fortunes of a landowning family during the first waves of civil unrest.

When the government is handed over to the Iraqi Council on 30 June, many have declared, oh, the Americans must never leave because civil unrest may erupt. Well, I agree, we cannot abruptly depart, but Iraq needs to step up to the plate on 30 June.

When governments become weak, troubles are certain to erupt.

One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.

I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely.

The Doctor...told the old ever-new and curious story of the waning of a woman's love, seeking strange, new channels, only to return to its legitimate source after days of fierce unrest.

Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?

Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,And frantic-mad with evermore unrest.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

People are not embracing Communism as Communism, but they are discontented, insecure and unsettled and they embrace anything that looks like it might be better than what they have to endure. . . . It is very easy for anybody who has a job and is getting along all right to cry for democracy . . . but if you cannot feed your children and you do not know where the next meal is coming from, nobody knows what kind of freak you will follow."13

Hunger bred anger, anger bred suspicion, suspicion bred crowds, and crowds bred mobs.

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By reducing the population, it would alleviate the conditions of poverty and unrest that might lead developing nations to embrace communism, and instead promote the growth of markets for consumer goods and the embrace of capitalism.

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Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.