Quotes About Tumults

En los tumultos populares hay siempre cierto número de hombres que, o por acaloramiento de pasión, o por persuasión fanática, o por un designio malvado, o por un perverso gusto del desorden, hacen todo lo posible por llevar las cosas al peor extremo; proponen o promueven los consejos más despiadados, soplan en el fuego cada vez que empieza a languidecer: nunca es demasiado para ellos; no querrían que el tumulto tuviera fin ni medida.

Hobbes puts the blame squarely on Aristotle, who he said led men to connect liberty with democracy and goaded them into "loving tumults" and disorder, believing those were the way to secure liberty when they did just the opposite. Instead, Hobbes argued, nothing was safe unless we obey the sovereign;

If we look back to the riots and tumults, which at various times have happened in England, we shall find, that they did not proceed from the want of a government, but that government was itself the generating cause; instead of consolidating society it divided it; it deprived it of its natural cohesion, and engendered discontents and disorders, which otherwise would not have existed.

There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments of vast disturbance, as in the strife of Nature itself, some new principle of order, or some new impulse of conduct, develops itself, and controls, and regulates, and brings to an harmonious consequence, passions and elements which seem only to threaten despair and subversion.