78 Quotes About Law-and-order

Look at outside. We don't have drug dealers on the corners anymore. I can't remember the last time someone was shot on this block. My church-goers can come and go in peace.""When there isn't a curfew. Pastor, this isn't peace. This is order

The existence of any social construct hinges on the survival of its constituents and maintenance of law and order. In peace, it thrives.

Freedom without accountability is animal freedom and freedom with accountability is human freedom or civilized freedom.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

In our society, it appears that rules give us a more specific idea of the things that we want to break so that we can break them more efficiently.

One who needs law is yet to be civilized.

Books Over Bombs (The Sonnet)Bombs kill terrorists,Books kill terrorism.Missiles kill extremists,Mindfulness kills extremism.Guns kill supremacists,Goodness kills supremacy.Law restrains cruel people,Love reforms cruelty.Sarin cripples the malicious,Service cures malice.C4 impairs the prejudiced,Curiosity treats prejudice.Violence can be revolution no more.For all degradation kindness is the cure.

Law restrains cruel people, love reforms cruelty.

In the waning decades of the twentieth century, liberals and conservatives alike cast the lingering divisions of the 1960s less as matters of law and order than as matters of life and death. Either abortion was murder and guns meant freedom or guns meant murder and abortion was freedom. How this sorted out came to depend upon party affiliation.