"The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."

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Source : "Introduction to Criminal Justice" by Larry Siegel, Cengage Learning, (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

Robert Peel

#Giving Quotes #Community Quotes #Police Quotes

“Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.”
“So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.”
“The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.”
“By the same means we do not always arrive at the same ends.”
“The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.”
“A talented executive would be somebody who knows how to surround themselves with a lot of people that will make him look good. You could say that about a politician or you could say that about a head of a major corporation or what have you. The people you surround yourself with are very important.”
“Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.”

Source : FaceBook post by Allan Gurganus from Mar 20, 2011
“It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring”

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