Top 310 Arrest Quotes & Sayings

When the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong.

Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.

Shortly before my arrest, my girlfriend at the time, who's now my wife of ten years, told me she was quitting drugs and going to church. I went with her once but that was it. After the arrest, I didn't know what I was going to do. She told me to trust in God but I mean, I was looking at ten years and was like, "God? I'm not dying, I need a lawyer. I need bail."

Citizen's arrest," he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me to.

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

You can arrest me, but you can't arrest my ideas.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing about one of them individually...and yet all these incidental irrelevancies taken together implacably constitute the arrest.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

We believe that the way you dress and the shoes you wear are not probable cause for questioning or arrest.

The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

I have been arrested time and time again, and my colleagues, too. I cannot guarantee that I'll not be arrested again. But it's not something that weighs on my mind. I'll do what I can while I'm free. If they arrest me again, I'll do what I can while I'm under arrest.

Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.

No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.

When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

My grandfather died under house arrest.

If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.

My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.

As far as I remember, I don't have any warrants out for my arrest anymore. I can travel without fear.

I can't be under arrest now... I don't have time.

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Yeah, arrest that man on the crime of having 8 Chicken McNuggets stuck up his arse.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.

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.

What has happened to protesters in the past was that, basically, the government in 2012 put an end to a series of mass protests by changing laws, by making it possible to arrest anybody for protests, and by making basically a show of imprisoning not just protest leaders, and not specifically protest leaders, but activists, rank-and-file protest participants. That gets across the idea that anybody who joins a protest without being an organizer, without being a visible leader, risks arrest, and not risks just arrest, but years in a Russian jail.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online.

I was once arrested for resisting arrest.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

Time and again I was asked to arrest Jamaat activists but I put my foot down and refused to cave in.

You can't arrest me. I'm the Cake Boss.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse

The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

Look at the world, all the suffering... Being under house arrest is the least I can sacrifice.

I'm one of those workaholics, the kind of guy who may drop with a cardiac arrest around 55.

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

I'm not surprised for the arrest of anybody. Because I know people who don't fear God, that's going to happen.

At the airport if you refuse to be patted down, they arrest you. And what's the first thing they do when they arrest you? They pat you down.

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems.

Iran has a young population, and the desire to get out from under conservative religious social restrictions and to be able to speak their mind without fear of arrest is palpable. But nearly seven years after authorities crushed massive street protests, reformers are still threatened with arrest and expectations for change are extremely low.

Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

One does not arrest Voltaire.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest.

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest.

The police are on the way to arrest you for stealing my heart, hijacking my feelings, and driving me crazy.

You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police.

You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.

It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.

With 'Cardiac Arrest,' I wanted to show that there were times when doctors really didn't care.