“Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.” PeopleThinkingJesusReligiousSimplePracticeTaughtMajorsNegativePoliceViolentHatefulLiberatedNegative ThoughtsReligious Practices Author:Richard Rohr
“Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true.” Has BeensGovernmentSchoolGenerationsHeardInformationStudentsTaughtDrugHigh SchoolPoliceIncludingFactualHigh School Students Author:Ann Shulgin
“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.” PeopleIfsShowsSchoolNightHumanityEducationHalfMillionsGenerationsFrontsTaughtCollegeHundredPoliceLawyerSeatsWickedInstructionOppressedWorldlyNeglectedRespectableBourgeoisMy GenerationYoungstersFreshmanBartenderGiddyMidwifeLieutenantsSophomoreWorldly WisdomCollege Freshmen Author:H. L. Mencken
“My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.” FirstsBookHardLawFatherFictionStudyTaughtAreasDecidedPoliceSeriesCriminalsCaliforniaProceduresDetectivesExpertiseFiction WritersCriminal LawDetective Fiction Author:Sue Grafton
“People who aren't minorities don't know what its like to be one. Of course they'll say, "He must've done something," because they're taught to believe that if you're targeted by the police that you've done something.” PeopleIfsKnowsBelieveDoneCoursesTaughtPoliceMinorities Author:Brandon Marshall
“In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were wrong. The strategy of the present drug war is Prohibition redux.” WarProblemTaughtDrugPoliceStrategyAlcoholJailAnarchyProhibitionTaught UsWar On Drugs Author:Rodney S. Quinn
“If my lips teach the public that men are made mad by bad treatment, and if the police are taught that they may exasperate to madness men they persecute and ill treat, my life will not be entirely thrown away.” IfsMenMayMadeWisdomTeachTaughtTreatsMadnessPoliceMadLipsIllThrownAustraliaTreatment Author:Ned Kelly
“If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.” IfsDoeCan DoCrimeTaughtJudgingPoliceVictimViolentJurySelf DefenseShooterSelf DefenceViolent CrimesFelons Book:Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition
“The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle” HomeLawHouseCompanyTaughtPoliceCorruptionFraudElectricEnforcementUtilitySheriffCorruptElectricalEnglishOfficerCastleCorporationFraudulentConjunctionEnglishman Author:Steven Magee
“I am self taught in how to control potentially dangerous encounters with police officers and how to deescalate the situation by calling 911.” DangerousTaughtCallingPoliceEncountersControlOfficers911PotentiallyDeescalate Author:Steven Magee