78 Quotes About Law-and-order

All laws are made to be followed, replaced, broken or improved. The spirit of laws is just like this.

Law is only a temporary fix for chaos, not the cure. The only cure for chaos is individual responsibility.

Law of today creates, not a society of order, but a society of controlled chaos.

Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.

Injustice is bound to drop in proportion to rising social responsibility - poverty is bound to drop in proportion to rising social responsibility - discrimination and inequality are bound to drop in proportion to rising social responsibility.

We wish to break with all aspects of the liberal State: with its welfare and its warfare, its monopoly privileges and its egalitarianism, its repression of victimless crimes whether personal or economic. Only we offer technology without technocracy, growth without pollution, liberty without chaos, law without tyranny, the defense of property rights in one’s person and in one’s material possessions.

Racial attitudes—not crime rates or likelihood of victimization—are an important determinant of white support for 'get tough on crime' and antiwelfare measures.

While many have depicted the War on Drugs as a Republican initiative, the drug war was a bipartisan effort. This rhetoric of law andorder deployed by politicians won elections nationwide, from races for local council seats to the presidency.

The shift to a general attitude of 'toughness' toward problems associated with communities of color began in the 1960s, when the gains and goals of the Civil Rights movement began to require real sacrifices on the part of white Americans, and conservative politicians found they could mobilize white racial resentment by vowing to crack down on crime.