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“Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.”

Mean Persons Country Sometimes Middle Breaths Police Fingers Forests Despite Village Mum Pigs Sandwiches Small Villages Fondling

Book:Whispers Under Ground

Source: Whispers Under Ground

“The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.”

Should Faces Half Middle Please Police Symbols Mask Forbidden Beard Obscene

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.”

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Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“There's one in every family. When the police calls in the middle of the night and says "We've got a family members of yours under arrest" and you know directly who it is. In my family we have seven of those... And they are all my *Mom*!”

Knows Night Middle Mom Members My Family Police Seven My Mom Family Members Middle Of The Night

Author:Christopher Titus

“Black men in ghetto communities (and many who live in middle class communities) are targeted by the police at early ages, often before they're old enough to vote. They're routinely stopped, frisked, and searched without reasonable suspicion or probable cause.”

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Author:Michelle Alexander

“Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.”

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Author:Benjamin Spock

“He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.”

Source: Klondike Two Pack: The Call of the Wild and White Fang

“If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.”

Source: Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

“This was a nightmare scenario for any bodyguard: stuck in the middle of a transparent tube, several miles underwater, with a murdering band of fugitives at one end and an enthralled but still highly skilled police officer at the other.”

Stills Ends Middle Band Police Miles Stuck Nightmare Officers Transparent Scenarios Tubes Police Officer Underwater Bodyguard Stuck In The Middle

Author:Eoin Colfer

“You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.”

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Author:Joan Rivers

“I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.”

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Author:Abdallah II

“Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.”

Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“My most embarrassing moment was when I was a student at Tufts University and decided to go 'streaking' with a group of girls in the middle of January. Somehow I lost them and ended up being chased by the campus police.”

Moments Girl Lost Groups Middle Students Decided Police University Embarrassing January Campus Embarrassing Moment

Author:Meredith Vieira

“I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.”

Mind War Night Fighting Pay Enemy Streets Middle Police Train Bridges Welfare Bombs Subsidies Fiasco Proxy Sanitation Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Lupe Fiasco