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• Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.

  Gene Spafford

  Light, Bridges, People

  Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford (1997). “Web Security & Commerce”, O'Reilly Media

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• I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Lasts, Empresses, Spas

  Lee Kuan Yew (2015). “The Singapore Story (Student Edition): Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.154, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

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• A libertarian is someone who can believe that the police are no more than a gang of thugs without realizing that in the absence of police, thugs will gather into gangs.

  S.M. Stirling

  Believe, Thug, Libertarian

  Usenet group rec.arts.sf.written, July 7, 2000.

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• The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

  Frank Serpico

  Atmosphere, Doe, Honest

  "The Return of Frank Serpico". Frank Serpico's speech before the New York Knapp Commission on police corruption and other misconduct, www.villagevoice.com. October 1971.

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• In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.'

  Alan Brazil

  Morning, Sorry, Paper

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• Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.

  Anthony Gregory

  Mean, Kissing, Gay

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• Vans are the vehicles of murderers. Serial Killers. Rapists. Thieves. Nothing good ever happens in a van. Police should be allowed to arrest van drivers without cause. The van is the cause, asshole.

  Shalom Auslander

  Serial Killer, Thieves, Killers

  Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.142, Penguin

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• Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold winters, hunger, homelessness, and unsympathetic police. But under each hardened shell there is still a child.

  Craig Kielburger

  Children, Kids, Winter

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• Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.

  Hakim Bey

  Video, Consciousness, Nazi

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• If you put something together and it doesn't look so good,
  the fashion police are not going to come and take you away.
  And if they do, you might have some fun in jail.

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Fun, Jail

  "Learn to layer up for a hot, sticky summer" by Invisible Woman, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• My father was a police officer with the New York Police Department; I've always had a high respect for officers. I want to give back to the community, and I want to work with young kids, help them get off drugs.

  Lou Ferrigno

  New York, Father, Kids

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• When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

  John Redwood

  Teacher, Breathing, Nurse

  "Tories promise to 'lift the weight of bureaucracy'" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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• You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police can indeed rest in peace. The flowers of spring shall bloom upon their graves moistened by the tears of a great city. Outraged and violated law shall be redeemed and in their martyrdom anarchy shall be buried forever.

  Jason Epstein

  Rest In Peace, Spring, Flower

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• Have I ever had sex with a hooker? I'd like to answer that question with a question of my own. Can just anyone look up police records?

  Zach Braff

  Sex, Looks, Records

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• I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.

  Grace Slick

  Florida, Hawaii, Saws

  "Somebody to Love?". Book by Grace Slick, 1998.

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• Gandhiji would always offer full details of his plans and movements to the police, thereby saving them a great deal of trouble. One police inspector who availed himself of Gandhi's courtesy in this matter is said to have been severely reprimanded by his chief. 'Don't you know,' he told the inspector, 'that everyone who comes into close contact with that man goes over to his side?'

  Reginald Reynolds

  Peace, Men, Details

  Reginald Reynolds (1952). “A Quest for Gandhi”

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• Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped ... Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous ... Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases... Police are losing the drug battle worldwide.

  Raymond Kendall

  Country, War, Years

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• Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and our courts from having to fight losing battles against drug use will enable their energies and facilities to be devoted more fully to combating other forms of crime.

  Milton Friedman

  Fighting, Blow, Law

  "Tyranny of the status quo".

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• To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is dangerous: to be in love is to be in a storm, constantly. You need courage and you need awareness, and you are to be ready for anything. There is no security in love; love is insecure. Marriage is a security: the registry office, the police, the court are behind it. The state, the society, the religion - they are all behind it. Marriage is a social phenomenon. Love is individual, personal, intimate.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Insecure, Love Is

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• Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

  Helen Rowland

  Laughter, Kissing, Laughing

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• All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of the rights of person and property-can be and have been supplied far more efficiently and certainly more morally by private persons. The State is in no sense required by the nature of man; quite the contrary.

  Murray Rothbard

  Freedom, Men, Rights

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• ... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.

  Bob Black

  Order, Giving, Adults

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll

  Steven Adler

  Rocks, Eagles, Rock And Roll

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• Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

  George Hamilton

  Men, Italian, Fans

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• I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd.

  Walter Crane

  Real, Numbers, Warfare

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