"Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable."

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Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert. Chapter "Is It a Free Country?", 1935.

A. P. Herbert

#Pain Quotes #Police Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“You can only give things up once they start to let you down.”

Source : Edward St Aubyn (2014). “The Patrick Melrose Novels: Picador Classic”, p.285, Pan Macmillan
“To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.”
“The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.”
“People of relatively low intelligence can be morally wonderful if they desire the right and the good (not necessarily under the description "right" or "good"). Their low intelligence sometimes results in their accidentally doing something wrong, but doing something wrong out of low intelligence alone is like stepping on a person's foot because you are (literally) blind or missing a cry for help because you are (literally) deaf. We do not judge the blind or deaf person as morally bad.”
“If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles.”
“I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.”
“Without producing, no man can love, nor can he understand or remember, nor have the power of feeling and being.”
“My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.”

Source : "'Saved by the Bell' star Elizabeth Berkley to pen teen self-esteem handbook". www.mtv.com. April 12, 2010.

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