"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."

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

S.M. Stirling

#Believe Quotes #Thug Quotes #Police Quotes

“Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.”
“Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”
“You have got to have an agent. Its a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.”
“The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.”
“This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.”
“Easier to keep changing your life than to live it.”
“Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.”
“My problem is trying to find the desire to fight and be on the court ready to fight. For a few weeks, I haven't felt like I wanted to be on the court. That's the problem.”

Source : "U.S. Open results, Aug. 29". www.sfgate.com. August 30, 2013.

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