“A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?” IfsHumansHappensHumanityBeliefWeekConditionsBuddhismPoliceRecognitionRealisticHuman Condition Author:Frederick Lenz
“The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.” BeliefSexCausesCan DoChurchResultsAbusePoliceCatholicCrisisCorruptionNobleDedicatedDoing GoodCatholic ChurchNoble CausesSex Abuse Author:Alex Gibney
“The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!” HumansSoulProblemValuesBeliefRealizingHuman BeingsSecretClassMajorsPoliceAverageScalesImmortalityOur TimeDecayWorking ClassBellyMajor ProblemsSecret Police Book:Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
“The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most emphatically, it cannot be permitted to define one group as being privileged over another group of people. It was wrong in the days of Jim Crow; it is wrong in the days of affirmative action.” PeopleGovernmentActionBeliefGroupsTastePolicePrivilegedCrowAffirmative ActionAffirmativeJim CrowPolice Power Author:Charles A. Murray
“Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.” PeopleFirstsHumansLastsLawSpiritValuesChoicesBeliefGivenLinesChanceSecretDemocracySecurityWeaponsOrdinaryGunUltimateUniversalPoliceWesternSpreadTyrannyDictatorshipHuman SpiritOrdinary PeopleDefenceRule Of LawSecret PoliceWestern Values Author:Tony Blair
“There was a man named Robert Dear who in court said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about his Christian beliefs motivating his desire to attack and murder three people, including a police officer, in Colorado.That man is a Christian. He`s an avowed Christian. He appears to have acted on those Christian beliefs to undertake that act of violence.” PeopleMenSaidChristianDesireThreeBeliefWifeViolenceBabyMurderPoliceCourtIncludingDearWarriorOfficersExesPolice OfficerColoradoActs Of ViolenceEx Wife Author:Chris Hayes
“My personal beliefs were shaped more by experience and by watching the news when I was young: images of angelic-looking college students in Mississippi crying like the world was ending because black people were being allowed on their campus; the slow mounting horror of Vietnam on the evening news every night; sitting with my parents in front of the TV and being appalled at the way the Chicago police were treating the protesters during the '68 Democratic convention. Being eyed with suspicion because of my age and the way I wore my hair.” PeopleWorldWayAgeYoungNightBeliefParentBlackFrontsCryStudentsCollegeTvsHairHorrorNewsSittingPoliceDemocraticEveningChicagoBlack PeopleVietnamConventionsEvery NightSuspicionMississippiCampusAngelicCollege StudentsPersonal Beliefs Author:James Vance
“I would like to think that we are on a move that could be like [Ronald] Reagan. Reagan appealed to the average working American: their patriotism, their love of country, the belief in their schools and their communities and their loyalty to the military and police, and the things that create stability and a good life.” ThinkingCountrySchoolMovingBeliefCommunityMilitaryPoliceAverageLoyaltyGood LifeStability Author:Jeff Sessions
“The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public.” TryingMeanBeliefCausesDealsHellTroubleAngelPoliceBoundsExtremesInsultFascinatingOffenseHalfwayGeneral PublicRetaliation Book:The Harley-Davidson Reader Source: The Harley-Davidson Reader
“My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.” WorldRealityBeliefCitiesExistenceFashionSourceConsequencePoliceComplexesExpertsProvisionBaffledDwellers Author:James Buchan
“I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.” PeopleShouldCountryBeliefGunShould HavePoliceSoldierFirmOfficersPolice OfficerFirearmsFirm BeliefsOttawa Author:Allan Rock
“Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.” MenMadeFactsPoliticalBeliefPoorPartyMen And WomenPoliceThrownStationsJailPolitical PartiesPolitical Beliefs Author:Jane Addams
“Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way to behave towards someone; also it does not fit the original motivation for studying or entering philosophy. That motivation is puzzlement, curiousity, a desire to understand, not a desire to produce uniformity of belief. Most people do not want to become thought-police. The philosophical goal of explanation rather than proof not only is morally better, it is more in accord with one's philosophical motivation.” PeopleWayWantTryingBelieveDoePhilosophyDesireMotivationBeliefGoalStudyNiceProduceFitArgumentPhilosophicalPoliceOriginalsProofBehaveExplanationEnteringAccordUniformityCuriousityThought Police Book:Philosophical Explanations Source: Philosophical Explanations
“Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drug use will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime.” FormLawFightingBeliefEnergyGrowingCrimeBattleDrugActivityLosingIncreasePoliceCourtBlowStrikesRelatedDevotedLaw EnforcementEnforcementEmphasisSeriousnessFacilityPreventionCannabisEfficacy Author:Milton Friedman