Best Polis Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Last of the Wine

“Do you know where 'policeman' comes from, sir? ... 'Polis' used to mean 'city', said Carrot. That's what policeman means: 'a man for the city'. Not many people knew that. The word 'polite' comes from 'polis', too. It used to mean the proper behaviour from someone living in a city.”

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Book:Men at Arms

Source: Men at Arms

“Sokakta geçen uykusuz gecelerin en berbat tarafı, uyanmak için bomboş bir eve dönmektir.”

Aşk Polisiye Ahmet üMit Polis Cinayet Aşk Acısı

Book:Beyoğlu'nun En Güzel Abisi

Source: Beyoğlu'nun En Güzel Abisi

“Eğer bir polissen ve barışçıl göstericilere vahşice saldırma emri sana verilmişse, sadece tek bir seçenek seni ‘insan kategorisinde’ tutar: Emri reddetmek ve istifa etmek! Her zaman vicdanının sesini dinle! Kötülerin kötü emirlerini reddet! Bu sana iyi bir şeref getirecektir.”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Hayvanların kurumlara alınmadığını söylediğini sanıyordum. Kırk tane polis köpeği herhalde kesinlikle hayvandır öyle değil mi?" "Polis köpekler aslında düzgün konuşan hayvanlar değildir. Polis köpekleri, hayvan zihniyetinden yoksun sapkın hayvanlardır. Polisler insan mı ki polis köpekleri hayvan olsun?”

Polis Köpek Hayvan

Book:The Hearing Trumpet

Source: The Hearing Trumpet

“Classical Greece is perhaps the place in which this tension found for a moment an uncertain, precarious equilibirum. In the course of the subsequent political history of the West, the tendency to depoliticise the city by transforming it into a house or a family, ruled by blood relation or by merely economic operations, will alternate together with other, symmetrically opposed phases in which everything that is unpolitical must be mobilised and politicised. In accordance with the prevailing of one or the other tendency, the function, situation and form of civil war will also change. But so long as the words 'family' and 'city', 'private' and 'public', 'economy' and 'politics' maintain an albeit tenuous meaning, it is unlikely that it can ever be eliminated from the political scene of the West.”

Polis Oikos Statis

Book:The Omnibus Homo Sacer

Source: The Omnibus Homo Sacer

“The form that civil war has acquired today in world history is terrorism. If the Foucauldian diagnosis of modern politics as biopolitics is correct, and if the genealogy that traces it back to an oikonomical-theological paradigm is equally correct, then global terrorism is the form that civil war acquires when life as such becomes the stakes of politics. Precisely when the polis appears in the reassuring figure of an oikos - the 'Common European Home', or the world as the absolute space of global economic management - then stasis, which can no longer be situated in the treshold between the oikos and the polis, becomes the paradigm of every conflict and re-emerges in the form of terror. Terrorism is the 'global civil war' which time and again invests this or that zone of planetary space. It is no coincidence that the 'terror' should coincide with the moment in which life as such - the nation (which is to say, birth) - became the principle of sovereignty. The sole form in which life as such can be politicised is its unconditioned exposure to death - that is, bare life.”

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Book:The Omnibus Homo Sacer

Source: The Omnibus Homo Sacer

“If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.”

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Book:Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman

Source: Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman

“Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.”

Cities Honesty Policy Strategy Honesty Is The Best Policy Polis

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]”

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Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.”

Ifs Men Ends Form Goal Community Achieve Highest Polis

Author:Moses Finley

“Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better."”

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Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.”

Needs Individual Struggle Achieve Ordinary Excellence Extraordinary Caught Accomplishment Collectives Allowing Peers Participation Agnostic Caught Up Polis

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.”

Persons Made Character Helping Turns Moral Good Person Moral Character Polis

Book:Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

Source: Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

“Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.”

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Author:Finley Peter Dunne

“I did sit down with Jared Polis (D-CO), and we had a good discussion about having the LGBT [Equality] Caucus pool some money and perhaps hire a staffer like some of the other caucuses do. That way we could hopefully be even more proactive on issues like ENDA, student non-discrimination and some of the other bills that are out thereit’s just a matter of now figuring out — having seven of us total — how can we best move those forward either through legislation and working with the president to issue orders.”

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Author:Mark Pocan

“If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community. 'A polis is not an association for residence on a common site, or for the sake of preventing mutual injustice and easing exchange.' While these conditions are necessary to a polis, they are not sufficient. 'The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end.”

“Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. Unlike those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this new bomb not only destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery on those who live there, but also transforms its target into just another piece in the puzzle of economic globalization.”