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Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.


Robert Reich
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
Tony Blair
In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?
Chris Noth
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That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.


Kim Stanley Robinson
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I want people to learn what democracy means.


Jack Ma
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When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?


Edith Evans
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A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.
Jason Statham
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Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.
Richard P. Feynman
What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing.
Theresa May
Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.
Allan Guthrie
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
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When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.
Frans de Waal
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.


Karl Liebknecht
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In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.
Steven Seagal
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One of the interesting things about being a female police officer in the '60s is they really didn't have opportunities to do any serious police work - they filed, and they made coffee, and they were treated like secretaries.
Claire Holt
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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Simeon Strunsky
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I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.
Theresa May
In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.
Catherine Ashton
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We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.
Greg Graffin
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People who dance well, dress well, are well groomed and know how to behave seem to know others who dance, dress and behave well.
Don Cornelius
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