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“With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.”

Government Civilization Police Officers

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard.”

“Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, There's a naked person outside!”

Persons Walks Streets Citizens Civilization Clothes Police Phones Naked Reports Terrified Firing Machetes

Author:Mike Nichols

“To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods”

Believe Watches Conditions Civilization Machines Police Method Conferences

Author:Frances Perkins

“We talk about civilization as though it's a static state. There are no civilized people yet, it's a process that's constantly going on... As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.”

People Long War States Process Stage Crime Civilization Police Prison Civilized Static

Author:Jacque Fresco

“As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that will be the beginning of civilization.”

Long Use Earth Together Civilization Army Police Prison Civilized Navy Army Navy

Author:Jacque Fresco

“As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.”

Long War Stage Crime Civilization Police Prison

Author:Jacque Fresco

“In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates.”

Dream Adventure Civilization Police Boat Dry Pirate Espionage Dry Up

Author:Michel Foucault

“The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.”

Long War Stage Crime Civilization Intelligent Police Prison Intelligent Life

Author:Jacque Fresco

“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”

Common Civilization Taxes Police Soldier Seeds Lists Servant Greek Dancer Priests Museums Ballet Fabulous Taxation Gothic Slumber Ballet Dancer Embryos Civil Servants Steeples

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works