Top 28 Quotes About Civil Unrest: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Civil Unrest

#1. 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.

Sarah Hall

#2. Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

Stephen Hawking

#3. And I maintain, Detective Halse," said Inspector Fry doggedly, "that the civil unrest which allowing this message to remain in view would foment is against the principles of conscience and of British decency. Are you against the principles of British decency, Detective?

Lyndsay Faye

#4. The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

Jennifer Granholm

#5. Civil unrest occurs when the feelings of overwhelming powerlessness hit critical mass.

Michael Connelly

#6. In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.

Bashar Al-Assad

#7. If you cut down the forest, you know what happens: The whole of Asia turns into a desert. Without water, you're talking civil unrest, war, mud slides - the whole bloody lot.

Mark Shand

#8. We, the American people, clearly see the daunting forces we will undoubtedly face: terrorists, crime, drug gangs, the possibility of Euro-style debt riots, civil unrest or natural disaster.

Wayne LaPierre

#9. Do they think that, if left to our own devices, we'd all park on zebra crossings for a year? If they do, it means they don't trust us. And if they don't trust us, then the relationship has broken down and it's time for some civil unrest.

Jeremy Clarkson

#10. This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.

Charles Kennedy

#11. 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.

Howard Coble

#12. Research shows that the wealthier, more educated, and healthier a nation, the less violence and civil unrest among its populace, and the less likely that unrest will spread across its borders.

Peter Diamandis

#13. You don't need to leverage natural disasters. You don't need to capitalize on civil unrest. You need to be human. It's not always about business.

Scott Stratten

#14. Tears from our sex are not always the results of grief; they are frequently no more than little sympathetic tributes which we pay to our fellow-beings, while the mind and the heart are steeled against the weakness which our eyes indicate.

Elizabeth Inchbald

#15. The smell of oranges has always reminded me of funerals.

Lauren Oliver

#16. In a way - I know how crazy this will sound, of course I do, but there is no sense in writing something as long as this if you can't say what feels true to your heart.

Stephen King

#17. The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not yet been utilized, for the very good reason that they have not yet been discovered.

Jules Verne

#18. There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between American professors and Chinese professors. This was vividly revealed to me when I compared what I could learn in Chicago and what I could learn in China.

Chen-Ning Yang

#19. As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.

Meles Zenawi

#20. Ever the pleasure of one has to be bought by the pain of the other, there better be no trade at all. A trade by which one gains and the other loses is a fraud.

Ayn Rand

#21. Aeduan bundled her up and stood. She was so light, so fragile. A bird in his demon arms.

Susan Dennard

#22. Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

Richard M. Nixon

#23. I loved her every minute of every day, heart and mind and soul and all of it, and it was getting late and I wanted the place never to close, never.

Donna Tartt