Jeff Lindsay Quotes

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

The policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

The security and welfare of the people of Egypt have reached a point that the drapers, moneychangers and jewellers do not even lock their shops - they only lower a net across the front, and no one tampers with anything

The 4 policeman

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay.

If you want to cut down crime in America, give people some jobs.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

In government it is order that matters.

If the police can shoot a criminal, then why can't we take action against those who are poisoning our society?

The experience of being a prosecutor gives us a sort of proctologists view of our society.

In all governments fear is recognized as one of the grounds for the enforcement of law. In even the freest nations and under the highest form of civilization the public opinion that administers law makes its demand partly in the interest of essential right, partly with the instinct of self-preservation against the forces of evil, and partly for the punishment of wrong. Punishment in itself is not reformatory; it is retributive; it is deterrent; it plays upon fear.

Let me remember, when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country.

The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms, like law, discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.