National Police Force

Famous quotes containing the words police force, national, police and/or force:

    “Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

    “Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father,
    Because, in chief, it, only, can defend
    Against itself. At its mercy, we depend
    Upon it.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)