“To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.” HumansLife IsFallBlackOne ThingShadowPoliceReportsDepravity Book:Septimus Source: Septimus
“John Kerry fell off of his bicycle over the weekend. He went for a Sunday afternoon ride, fell off in front of the news media. Luckily, his hair broke the fall so it's not as serious. ... Thankfully, Senator Kerry was not seriously injured. In fact, when the police arrived, Kerry was well enough to give conflicting reports to the officers about what happened.” GivingWellsEnoughFactsFallHappenedMediaFrontsSeriousHairNewsPoliceBrokeReportsSundayOfficersAfternoonWeekendSenatorsInjuredBicycleJohn KerryNews MediaSunday Afternoons Author:Jay Leno
“You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967.” TryingYearsFallBlackEffortRacePeriodsSummerShotsRelationPoliceChiefsRebellionProgressiveFalling ApartVariationRace RelationsRiotMayorsDetroitFergusonUnraveling Author:David Maraniss
“We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.” UsedFallCommunityGreaterAwarenessExampleRelationPolice Author:Barack Obama
“America does not hold to the colonial tradition. America came, liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-Qaida, came to an arrangement with Hamid Karzai, wanted to organize elections as soon as possible and then withdraw. The Bush administration thought that once there is a democracy, everything else will fall into place. If today you speak to the architects of the 2001 Afghanistan Conference in Bonn, they will tell you that instead of being fixated on elections, we should have built a State in Afghanistan with an army and a police force first.” TodayFallSpeakDemocracyTraditionArmyPoliceElectionAfghanistanArchitectOrganizeTalibanFall Into Place Author:Ahmed Rashid
“Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.” IfsMenFallFightingPartyBreakPoliceVicesAcceptableBehaviourVice VersaBreak OutAmbulance Author:Bill Murray
“Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.” FallRightsSacrificePoliceVictimSacredTerrorismOfficersPolice OfficerBathtubs Author:Edward Snowden
“Pity the planet, all joy gone from this sweet volcanic cone; peace to our children when they fall in small war on the heel of small war--until the end of time to police the earth, a ghost orbiting forever lost in our monotonous sublime” ChildrenWarEndsEarthJoyFallLostGoneForeverPlanetsSweetPoliceOur ChildrenGhostPityHeelsSublimeEnd TimesMonotonousCones Book:Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs Source: Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs
“The other thing that troubled me: Dad was clutching his workbag. Usually when he does that, it means we're in danger. Like the time gunmen stormed into our hotel in Cairo. I heard shots coming from the lobby and ran downstairs to check on my dad. By the time I got there, he was just calmly zipping up his workbag while three unconscious gunmen hung by their feet from the chandelier, their robes falling over their heads so you could see their boxer shorts. Dad claimed not to have witnessed anything, and in the end the police blamed a freak chandelier malfunction.” MeanDoeEndsFallThreeHeardFeetDangerDadShotsPoliceMy DadChecksRanUnconsciousHotelFreakHungBoxersRobesShortsCairoMalfunctionChandeliersGunmen Author:Rick Riordan
“Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'” FallBlackBoysFireLandCatMurderPoliceNewspapersGrayToesMarineKittenNicaraguaBlack CatCaponeTricycles Author:Al Capone
“Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.” HumansStatesPurposeFallCoursesSocialJusticeHuman BeingsPoliceAimTerrorTerrorismIsolationDictatorUncertainUnitsAccumulation Book:Civilization in transition Source: Civilization in transition