"Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder"

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Source : Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.432, Faber & Faber

Rohinton Mistry

#Order Quotes #Justice Quotes #Police Quotes

“Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?”
“The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and other unconstitutional practices by law enforcement. I'm asking the Department of Justice to investigate if our police department has engaged in a pattern or practice of stops, searches or arrests that violate the Fourth Amendment.”
“We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.”
“You look for one thing and you find another.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2014). “Memento Mori”, p.131, New Directions Publishing
“The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The primary reason Jesus came to earth was to inaugurate the Kingdom of God. Often, we hear that the reason Jesus came to the earth was to die on the Cross. Jesus did come to die on the Cross, but that death on the Cross was for the purpose of establishing the Kingdom of God.”
“The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.”
“Basically it's just a whole bunch of blokes standing around scratching themselves”

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