Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Big Brother doesn't like all these Little Brothers looking at it.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

A functioning police state needs no police.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Remember that this White house is populated with … control freaks.

Ali Agha made his rounds wearing his turban of commands. The qadi’s deputy headed the procession with a kawas beside him carrying a sack full of truncheons…Anyone found in violation of the law…was beaten senseless, often dying from the punishment…Thus did Ali Agha inspire great terror. Passersby drew aside as soon as they saw him.

Even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe.

I believe there's something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government

Those who fear men like laws.

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

Power resides where men believe power resides.

The funny thing about any cop uniform is that people will do what you say when you're wearing a cop uniform.

who are the brain police?

You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

Power is founded upon opinion.

A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.