“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.” MenHumansBookStatesMomentsHelpingLawReadingGamesHuman BeingsRoomsFireWifeCoupleProtectHusbandWasteOrdinaryEconomicsGardenIncreaseArmyPoliceCourtThis LifeEtcWasting TimeParliamentDiggingHusband And WifePubsChattingDarts Book:Mere Christianity Source: Mere Christianity
“We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.” ThinkingYearsMomentsWaitingLevelsHappenedMinutesCarSittingPolicePrisonInjusticeDetermineOur FutureOfficersYour FuturePursesPolice OfficerElevators Author:Denzel Washington
“The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.” MomentsPoetryLiteratureProgressPoliceManage Author:Ted Hughes
“Poland didn't experience a groundbreaking moment in 1989. We didn't storm the secret police building. The squads of secret police, with all their political baggage, remained unscathed.” MomentsPoliticalSecretBuildingPoliceStormBaggagePolandSquadGroundbreakingSecret Police Author:Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
“A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone's life on every single story that he covers. It's not like being a sports reporter. That's a great job and all that and takes certain skills. But, you know, they're glad to see you when you show up to cover the football game. Nobody is ever glad to see a police reporter when he shows up.” KnowsMomentsStoriesShowsJobsCertainGamesSportsWalksWorstFootballSkillsPoliceGladReportersGreat JobFootball GameWorst Moments Author:Bob Schieffer
“I miss dating only for that final moment you kiss goodnight, watch her get out of your car and run into the police station.” MomentsRunningWatchesCarMissingKissingDatingPoliceFinalsStationsGoodnight Kiss Author:Dane Cook
“In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department of Justice has been led these years by the first two African-American attorneys general, when many big cities boast African-American league prosecutors and police chiefs and mayors, even in this moment, why is it that it still feels to so many young people that there is more power for change on the court than in the courts?” PeopleFeelsYearsFirstsHas BeensStillsTwoMomentsBigsYoungBlackPresidentJusticeCitiesKeysPoliceElectionCourtChiefsAfrican AmericanLeagueDepartmentVotersBoastAttorneyMayorsBig CitiesProsecutorReelection Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“It's certainly an interesting moment to try to talk about, 'cause you could make a great show about the police force right now, with all that's happening in the news and Ferguson and all of it.” TryingMomentsShowsForceCausesInterestingRight NowNewsHappeningsPolicePolice ForceFerguson Author:Ethan Hawke
“Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?” MomentsGivenForceBehaviorPoliceProtectionExtrasExaminationResonancePolice Force Author:Laura Mullen
“The disturbing video taken by Keith Lamont Scott`s wife showing the moment her husband was killed by police in Charlotte provides a sobering window into the high level of compliance that people of color feel they need to maintain in their interactions with police.” PeopleNeedsFeelsMomentsLevelsTakenWifeColorHusbandWindowPoliceVideoInteractionDisturbingHigh LevelComplianceKeithCharlotte Author:Chris Hayes
“History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there were police officers - there were these groups of men who would wander the countryside - and if they saw a black man or a black woman they would presume that that black man or woman was a slave. If you didn't have the kind of pass that you were supposed to have, then you could be whipped, you could be enslaved, you could be taken into custody - even if you were free. And as I'm reading this I find myself thinking, "How is this any different from stop-and-frisk?"” ThinkingMenKindDifferentMomentsReadingBlackTakenPoliceSlaveWanderBlack WomenCountrysidePolice Officer Author:Titus Kaphar
“I just think what we ought to do is we ought to stop seizing one moments of tragedy. We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action. But, you know, enough of this seeking every opportunity to demean law enforcement broadly by making the accusation of implicit bias every time tragedy occurs.” ThinkingEnoughMomentsActionOpportunityLossTragedyPoliceBiasLaw EnforcementAccusation Author:Mike Pence
“Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.” YearsMeanI CanMomentsShowsTodayHoursMillionsPoliceReformPostsOfficersBureaucracyReally MeanPolice OfficerBustingWatersheds Author:Theresa May
“Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a desk telephone. "I am going to call the police, Miss Drew, and turn you over to them on a charge of trespassing, breaking, and entering with an attempt to steal." "I wish you would," Nancy replied. "if it is possible over that dummy telephone.” IfsMomentsTurnsWishBehindsSilenceMissingOppositesPoliceStealingBellsDesksEnteringTelephonesTenseWish YouNancyDummyTrespassingI Wish You WouldBreaking And Entering Author:Carolyn Keene
“I dumped out the bag and found what had been inside was a bunched-up police uniform, complete with the vest. "Where did you get this?" Boo asked. "It's Callum's," he said. "What's he wearing?" "At the moment, not much of anything. Put it on." I noticed Book perk up a bit at this piece of information.” SaidBookMomentsFoundBitsPiecesInformationPoliceBagsUniformsPerksDumpedVests Author:Maureen Johnson
“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” WayMadeMomentsWantedCoursesIndividualGivenSoundDarknessKnowingMovementHabitPoliceInstinctRateAssumptionWirePlugsGuessworkThought Police Book:1984 Source: 1984
“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.” MomentsGirlLostGroupsMiddleStudentsDecidedPoliceUniversityEmbarrassingJanuaryCampusEmbarrassing Moment Author:Meredith Vieira