Police Force Act

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

    “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)

    “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)

    “Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)