Armed Quotes

“Surrender is no guarantee that an armed police officer will not shoot you.”
― Steven Magee

“Beware of the armed and dangerous police blue brotherhood.”
― Steven Magee

“It is important for long-range stability that peaceful countries be well armed and well organized in self-defense.”
― Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe

“...the attitude of Gorky and his paper. He had returned to Russia early in 1914, taken a pacifist line on the the outbreak of war, but had pursued it with a restraint which protected him from most of the obloquy poured on others of similar views After the February Revolution of 1917 he had regarded the Bolsheviks as merely one among a number of progressive parties, and it was not unexpected that in October he should warn about the future. Now, he not only printed the Zinoviev-Kamenev statement but also a leading article in which he said:

'Ever more persistent rumors are spreading to the effect that on 2 November a Bolshevik rising will take place; in other words, that the hideous scenes of 16 to 18 July may be repeated. That means that once more there will appear motor lorries overfilled with men with rifles and revolvers in their trembling hands, and these rifles will shoot at shop windows, at people, at random. They will shoot only because the men armed with them will try to kill their fear. All dark instincts of the crowd irritated by disorder, by the falsehood and filth of politics, will flare up and ooze forth poisonous malice, hatred, vengeance. People will be killing one another, in their inability to destroy their own bestial stupidity.
The unorganized crowd will creep out into the streets, hardly understanding what it wants, while under its cover, adventurers, thieves, [and] professional assassins will set out to "create the history of the Russian revolution".
In brief, there will be repeated that bloody, senseless slaughter, which we have already witnessed, and which has undermined through our whole land the moral importance of the revolution, and has shaken its cultural meaning.”
― Ronald William Clark, Lenin

“Neither the Russians nor the Americans were the cleverest people, or the most experienced, in the world that followed 1945. The French were rather more civilized, the British more knowledgeable, and even the Italians at times more practical. But if you have the ships, the guns, and the money, too, cleverness or experience is not really necessary. Even a reasonable amount of blundering can be survived.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This kind of peace

“Never trust an armed police officer.”
― Steven Magee

“A boxer is always armed.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A woman who goes around wearing a knife is obviously looking for trouble. However, a woman who carries a knife is ready for trouble.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“A sea level adapted armed police officer that has developed altitude sickness should excuse themselves from duty and leave to sea level to treat it.”
― Steven Magee

“A sea level adapted armed police officer can legally refuse to venture above 10,000 feet in altitude on the grounds of health and safety.”
― Steven Magee

“A sea level adapted armed police officer can legally refuse to work at high altitude if they have pre-existing health conditions.”
― Steven Magee

“A sea level adapted armed police officer should leave to sea level at the first signs of altitude sickness.”
― Steven Magee

“A sea level adapted armed police officer would be wise not to venture above Hale Pohaku at 9,300-foot (2,800 m) on Mauna Kea due to altitude sickness and the associated health and safety problems that it may cause.”
― Steven Magee

“It is recommended that you keep your doors locked to prevent an armed police officer from walking into your home and shooting you dead.”
― Steven Magee

“USA citizens assassinating armed police officers is symptomatic of a poorly functioning government.”
― Steven Magee

“The Childersins were armed with swords and daggers. The Cartographers were armed with nothing but surprise, but really quite a lot of surprise.”
― Frances Hardinge, A Face Like Glass

“If you're armed, you are not alone.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Premonition is the greatest ammunition.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Oneironaut’s Diary

“You do not need to worry about me, as the only thing I am armed with is a word processor!”
― Steven Magee

“My lethal weapon is a brain.”
― Steven Magee

“Never go into an area with an armed police officer that is devoid of witnesses!”
― Steven Magee

“When in the presence of armed police officers, you must be constantly performing a risk assessment of the hazards they present to you.”
― Steven Magee

“When the risk level becomes too high in the presence of armed police officers, you need to start shouting as loud as you can to the people around you to alert them that you are in danger. Keep shouting until the threat subsides!”
― Steven Magee

“It is not a good idea to provide poor customer service to armed citizens!”
― Steven Magee

“The police ultimately pay the price for poor customer service when armed citizens start shooting them.”
― Steven Magee

“Never run away from an armed police officer, no matter how bad they are treating you!”
― Steven Magee

“You might as well look good if you're going to arm yourself to the teeth.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I would not be a good fit in the armed and dangerous blue brotherhood.”
― Steven Magee

“I do get a little nervous around armed police officers, as they can kill you!”
― Steven Magee

“I may have been the first altitude sickness researcher in history to have been harassed out of a high altitude international airport by armed and potentially dangerous police officers.”
― Steven Magee