Quote by Joseph Conrad

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

— Joseph Conrad

“Policemen and criminals were not so very much different.  So said Grand-père Filepe.  Certainly, they tended to know the same people, to drink in…

— Sharon Lee

“Sometimes when a person sees the roguery of poor people and the thievery of people in high positions, he is tempted to regard society…

— Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort

“Legality has become a poisonous dagger, with which one party stabs the other in the back.”

— Carl Schmitt

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. (Cambridge University…

— Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu

“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion”

— Alessandro Manzoni

“the police are only doing what they were trained to do, and what they are constantly encouraged to do by the courts.”

— James Duane

“Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most…

— Frank Herbert

“The police can be more corrupt than the criminals.”

— Steven Magee

“This was characteristic of ultimate deterrence: The deterrer and the deteree shared the same terror of deterrence itself.”

— Liu Cixin

“But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it multiplies like…

— Albert Camus

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. 'The Secret Agaent' (1907)

— Joseph Conrad