Law And Order Quotes - Page 3

• While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equivalent of the chaos that had ruled China for centuries: a chaos of robber gangs looting-and draining-the productive elements of the country.

  Ayn Rand

  Country, Order, Law

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.197, Penguin

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• I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.

  Liam Neeson

  Growing Up, Spring, Hero

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.

  Michel de Certeau

  Taken, Men, Order

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.191, Univ of California Press

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• What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Order, Law, Second Amendment

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• The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.

  Gore Vidal

  Thinking, Order, Law

  Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage

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• In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic, thought is indifferent toward its objects. Whether they are mental or physical, whether they pertain to society or to nature, they become subject to the same general laws of organization, calculation, and conclusion - but they do so as fungible signs or symbols, in abstraction from their particular "substance." This general quality (quantitative quality) is the precondition of law and order - in logic as well as in society - the price of universal control.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Order, Law, Organization

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 136), 1964.

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• But we're not God. We're humans, and at the end of the day we have to march to the beat of a certain kind of drum. And if you step outside too far into thinking you're some sort of deity that can transcend law and order, then you've crossed a line.

  Ronald Perelman

  Thinking, Law, Order

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex behavioural patterns can be triggered by a tiny concentration of moleculas coursing through the bloodstream, and that different animals of the same species generate different amounts of these hormones, is something worth thinking about when it's time to judge such matters as free will, individual responsibility, and law and order.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Thinking, Animal

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• Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as eye-witnesses that there is no country in the world where law and order are better maintained than in present-day Germany.  That there is no country in the world where person and property are held in better respect than in our own, but that there is perhaps also no country in the word where a more rigorous fight is put up against those who believe that they are free to let loose their lower instincts to the detriment of their fellow-beings.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Believe, Eye

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• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  Idris Elba

  Order, Years, Law

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• The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts.
  The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war.
  The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order.
  And the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs.
  their names, in Newspeak:
  Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv and Miniplenty

  George Orwell

  Art, War, Memorable

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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• Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order?

  Milton Friedman

  Order, Law, Alcohol

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• The Great Society went wrong for three major reasons. First, the self-organization the Johnson administration promoted turned out to be not the pooling of family and community resources into shops and businesses, but political pressure for government handouts. Second, the Great Society failed to anticipate the perverse side-effects of handing money out to people who have done nothing to earn it. Third, while the Great Society was showering money on the poor, the Supreme Court was with childlike glee smashing to bits traditional methods of maintaining law and order.

  David Frum

  Self, Order, Law

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• Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff's office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jesus, Kings, Gun

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• Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon the outlawing of the cross-bow by Papal authority. Setting up the machinery for international law and order must surely precede disarmament. The Wild West did not abandon its shooting irons till after sheriffs and courts were established.

  Joel Henry Hildebrand

  War, Nice, Thinking

  "Army's Atomic Bid Viewed in Making". Speech, American Library Association Conference (3 Jul 1947), New York Times, Jule 4, 1947.

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• Turkey, as an ex-imperial power, is all in favor of empires guaranteeing law and order on its borders. Turkey's and America's basic interests with regard to Iraq are identical. They both want a stable and rational Iraq that would use its considerable oil wealth in order to improve its own lot. But there doesn't seem to be very much prospect of that at the moment.

  Andrew Mango

  Wealth, Moments, Interest

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• Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used to CLAIM that the putschists are saving the country from ‪‎terrorism or ‪#civil war‬, and are preserving "‪law‬ and ‪‎order‬

  Gene Sharp

  Country, War, Order

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• I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne

  Kelley Armstrong

  Weekend, Order, Law

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• The Constitution of the United States has been mentioned...as the basis of wise decisions in fundamental principles as applied to all matters pertaining to law and order, because it was framed by men whom God raised up for this very purpose. But in addition to that inspired document, we must always keep in mind that the greatest weapons that can be forged against any false philosophy are the positive teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Harold B. Lee

  Wise, Jesus, Philosophy

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• The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. What is unnecessary and evil, what abridges the liberty and threatens the true welfare of the individual, is the State that has usurped excessive powers and grown beyond its legitimate function - the super-State, the socialist State, the redistributive State, in brief, the ironically misnamed 'Welfare State.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  Order, Law, Evil

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.195, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a produce of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world.

  William O. Douglas

  Order, Law, People

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• I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

  Idi Amin

  Mean, Order, Law

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• I think there's always bad apples [in police], and I've seen things that I don't like. But we have to bring back law and order. You have policemen now that are afraid to talk to anybody because they don't want to lose their job.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.economist.com

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• You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture. ... Even the great initial success of the quantum theory does not make me believe in the fundamental dice-game, although I am well aware that our younger colleagues interpret this as a consequence of senility. No doubt the day will come when we will see whose instinctive attitude was the correct one.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Attitude, Believe

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• I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.

  Wentworth Miller

  Couple, Home, Weekend

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

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