"When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today."

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Jacques Prevert

#Real Quotes #Police Quotes #Today Quotes

“So when he asked about getting high, I didn't think, I agreed. We smoked some good California green. Took three tries to put me in the place he said I should be.”
“If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.”
“I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.”
“You think the two of us and a slummy motel make for a dangerous combination?”
“I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.”

Source : Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.6, Golgotha Press
“Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunterâ€™s home.”
“What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.”
“It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. I started work towards the end of 1956 and in 1957 I had an exhibition in Milan which consisted entirely of what I dared to call my 'Epoque bleue'.”

Source : "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". ed. J & J, the Tate Gallery, London 1974, p. 31, 1957.

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