Arbitrary Arrest Quotes & Sayings

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders. — James Stockdale

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people. — Young Jeezy

I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose. — Marlo Morgan

My friends decided to open a pub and asked me to be part of it. The day-to-day running is something I know little about. Luckily, I'm the demented figurehead, a kind of mascot. I get all the good stuff - like free pork scratchings - without any of the bad stuff. — Jason Flemyng

Discovery is dangerous ... but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is
doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. — Brian Herbert

Fail to Succeed! — NightBits

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 the imposition of arbitrary tasks. — Maria Montessori

I don't just want to be associated with a few good 3D movies and the audience is saying all of the other ones are crap. — James Cameron

The vast majority of arrests carried out by the military appear to be entirely arbitrary, often based solely on the dubious word of a paid informant. Military sources repeatedly told Amnesty International that the informants are unreliable and often provide false information in order to get paid.

One officer said: "The military uses civilian informants to get information and arrest suspects. Most of these informants are liars. They give false information to the soldiers who are desperate to simply shoot and kill. Many of the soldiers don't know about investigations. The soldiers take these rash actions mainly out of frustration, especially after seeing their colleagues killed. — Amnesty International

Love street! This is the right way. — Debasish Mridha

Stand still, thou hurrying orb in the high heavens, and make this hour immortal! — Oscar Wilde

English law in the 15th and 16th centuries, despite being manipulated in favour of the king, did to some extent offer protection against arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. Death sentences could in theory only be imposed after lawful judgment. Slavery had no recognition in English law. Torture remained an extra-legal resort, at odds with legal principle. — Nicholas Vincent

As he left the room it seemed to him that he was walking between two eternities, on one side a list of the living, with its inevitable crossings-out, on the other - eternal exile. Eternal as the stars, as the galaxies. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn