“End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.” EndsWaitingStagePoliceShameAddiction Author:David
“Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.” PeopleMenWorldMayLastsStageHe ManGeniusNewsMen And WomenPoliceAnalysisBehaveVisibleCrowdedPsychologistMysticSensationalism Author:Robert Wilson Lynd
“The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.” HandsDifficultImaginationMagicStagePoliceTradeProfessionNervousCraftsDelicateMagicianHostilityIngeniousGuardedExplosivesSpecializationNarcotics Author:William Bolitho
“I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.” StillsHoursSleepCitiesFireStreetsStageFitMurderTheaterPoliceClockRanStationsHallsJailBuriedEchoesBellyRiotTickSlumsBanquetsCourtroomBookshopsSaloonsMadhousesTockTick Tock Author:Ben Hecht
“I watch the best. I'm a big fan of Elvis. I'm a big fan of 1950s Elvis when he would go on stage and scare people because he was a force and girls would go nuts! You can say the same thing for Prince or The Police. It's just guys who know that people are here to see a show, so I watch those guys and I love studying them because I'm a fan.” PeopleKnowsShowsBigsGuyGirlForceWatchesStudyFansStageGoes OnPoliceScareNuts Author:Bruno Mars
“Yet far from putting any meaningful constraints on law enforcement in this war, the U.S. Supreme Court has given the police license to stop and search just about anyone, in any public place, without a shred of evidence of criminal activity, and it has also closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the judicial process from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing.” WarLawGivenProcessDoorsStageActivityEvidenceClaimsPoliceCourtCriminalsMeaningfulSupremeBiasSupreme CourtLaw EnforcementEnforcementLicenseConstraintsJudicialBargainingCourthousesRacial Bias Author:Michelle Alexander
“The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.” FamilyCasesStageDevelopmentCitizensProtectGunPolicePrivacyAcceptable Author:Jeff Cooper
“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.” PeopleLongWarStatesProcessStageCrimeCivilizationPolicePrisonCivilizedStatic Author:Jacque Fresco
“The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.” FightingHistoryStagePoliceMinistersPrimeGet OverPrime MinisterUnbelievableBritish HistorySuffragettesPerfidy Author:Barbara Tuchman
“As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.” LongWarStageCrimeCivilizationPolicePrison Author:Jacque Fresco
“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.” LongWarStageCrimeCivilizationIntelligentPolicePrisonIntelligent Life Author:Jacque Fresco