2000s, Mother of All Mothers (September 2004)
Source: Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996), Chapter 5 (p. 96)
“If you have to help a person die, say nothing. Let the police do their own sleuthing.”
"Beware of the Law", p. 18
Final Exit
“The police are the public and the public are the police”
Of Peel's nine principles
Source: Known as the Peelian principles, from the General Instructions (1829) for the Metropolitan Police.
“Nobody sees through him — no, not even the chief of police.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Man of Peace
“A functioning police state needs no police.”
From the chapter entitled "Benway", p. 31
Naked Lunch (1959)
Said in an interview with the Braintree and Witham Times. Priti Patel interview on stop and search, knife crime, social spending and terror comments https://www.braintreeandwithamtimes.co.uk/news/17832581.priti-patel-interview-stop-search-knife-crime-social-spending-terror-comments/ (14 August 2019)
2019
But this folly is infinite as hell, as much without light or bound as the chaos or the primitive nothing.
"Apples of Sodom," part II, sermon XX of Twenty-Five Sermons for the Winter Half-Year, Preached at Golden Grove (1653)
“We are safer when communities respect the police and police respect communities.”
Source: Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech in Orlando, Florida (September 21, 2016)
