"The art of the police is not..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
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“There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.”
“In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.”
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
More on Police
“This policeman came up to me with a pencil and a piece of very thin paper. He said, "I want you to trace someone for me."”
“The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.”
“Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible.”
More on Perception
“Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.”
“As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.”
“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”