Arrest Quotes
Sayings on justice, consequence, and fairness.
These quotes look at arrest both literally and poetically, from the deterrent value of swift justice to a longing to arrest beauty itself. See more in Back.
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
If someone came into my home and wanted to arrest me for murder, that would be far less traumatizing to me than someone coming in and taking my 7-year-old twins.
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What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.
It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone.
Abandonment Quotes
If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and...
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.
Addiction Quotes
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the...
Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.
Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I...
Alienation Quotes
I'm one of those workaholics, the kind of guy who may drop with a cardiac arrest around 55.
My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.
When you're a federal agent you don't get to arrest people for like $5.00 petty crimes or anything like that, they'll throw you right out of there.
Virginians can choose to continue to elect criminal, illegal aliens like MS-13 - and by the way, they are animals - or, we can arrest them, deport them back to the countries where they came from, and build the wall!
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Is there a poetic use of 'arrest'?
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Others speak to fairness in how arrests are made, insisting that justice should never rest on unfair profiling. Continue with Addiction and Alienation.
