Arrested Quotes - Page 2

• On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

  Ric Keller

  Journey, California, Coyotes

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• Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Eye, Expression

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• The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Civilization, America, Essentials

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Growing Up, Silly, Moving

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• Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

  James Huneker

  Art, Philosophy, History

  James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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• I don't want to hide. If I get arrested, I get arrested.

  Edward Snowden

  Want, Ifs

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• It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer refuses to pay, his assets are seized by force, and if he should resist such depredation, he will be arrested or shot if he should continue to resist.

  Murray Rothbard

  Exercise, Trying, Doe

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.163, NYU Press

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• Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

  C. S. Lewis

  Old Things, Add, Development

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.

  Ernst Thalmann

  Political, Cost, Confession

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• The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.

  Mario Cuomo

  Long, Police, Muggers

  The New Republic, April 04, 1985.

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• I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity...I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.

  Paul Levine

  Guy, Identity, Moral

  Paul Levine (1995). “Mortal Sin”, Avon Books

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• So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested.

  Tommy Chong

  Mean, Marijuana, Able

  "Comedian Tommy Chong fighting prostate cancer". www.cnn.com. June 10, 2012.

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• The only serious side-effect of #‎ marijuana is that you might get arrested.

  Alan Watts

  Marijuana, Might, Sides

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• Getting arrested is fun.

  Dan Mathews

  Fun, Animal, Animal Rights

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• Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

  Michael Fox

  Animal, Development, Disease

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• I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.

  Mike DeWine

  Becoming, Illness, Violent

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• June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington Post was on the line. Five men had been arrested earlier that morning in a burglary attempt at Democratic headquarters, carrying photographic equipment and electronic gear. Could he come in?

  Carl Bernstein

  Morning, Men, June

  Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein (2012). “All the President's Men”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.

  Nat Hentoff

  Sports, Opportunity, Giving

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• What the hell could you do? I've never been arrested, I haven't taken drugs, I've had the same wife for 54 years; where's anything of interest to people?

  Stan Lee

  Taken, Years, People

  "'Nuff Said - An Interview with Stan Lee". Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. April 30, 2002.

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• It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

  Joe Rogan

  Hurt, Doors, Careers

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• This week a man was arrested for jumping over the White House fence and trying to spray paint a political message. If that guy really wanted to get a message to the president, he could have just written it in an email to literally anyone.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Jumping, White

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• I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

  David Soul

  Anger, Awful, Facts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Issues, Ifs

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• Helen Crawfurd and the Women's Peace Crusade, made a march on the City Chambers, distributing an illegal leaflet in front of police and even to some of the police as well. The women forced their way into the building and the police had a really tough time trying to get them out. Word spread around that several of them had been arrested and this brought out new and very threatening demonstrations.

  Willie Gallacher

  Cities, Tough Times, Police

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• Ten Delta Airlines baggage handlers were arrested for smuggling drugs into Detroit. Yeah, you can tell Delta was involved, because the drugs were supposed to be smuggled into Chicago.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Drug, Chicago, Baggage

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