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“Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.”

Should Mind States Order Natural Church Atheism Police Regard Positive Atheism Church And State

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.”

Hate Natural Enemy Army Police Despise Status Quo Hate And Fear Natural Enemies

Author:John Lennon

“Since the police department is becoming more and more militarized we're stuck in a position where we're reverting to that sort of behaviour that other places still suffer from because they're kept in that post-colonial state of development indefinitely so we can reap the benefits of taking whatever natural resources they have.”

“I feel that we have, as Mexicans, two things: one, a natural distrust of institutions. I hate organised religion, I hate organised politics, I hate the idea of the military and the police. Because we grew up distrusting all these sacred institutions, the only thing you have left is a vague, national sense of impending doom. Why do we drink and how are we so merry? Because we know that pretty soon, our time's up. There is a sense of fatality that makes us pretty chirpy people. You try to live. The only reason that dying is important is that it gives life sense.”

People Giving Trying Important Reason Hate Natural Dying Military Drink I Hate Police Distrust Doom

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different things and never to mingle professionally with each other, except at official functions, when we all wear ties and drink heavily and whoop it up like the natural, good-humored wild boys that we know in our hearts that we are..These occasions are rare, but they happen - despite the forked tongue of fate that has put us forever on different paths.”

Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F

“I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power”

Natural Abuse Police

Author:Terrence Howard

“Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.”

States Natural Violence Army Police Response Abundance Commodity Monopoly Detachment Unnatural Inhuman Looting

Book:Situationism: A Compendium

Source: Situationism: A Compendium

“Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!”

Ifs Action Felt Natural Hell Forever Dangerous Tasks Police Excitement Police Work

Author:Eliot Ness