Citations:anti-policism

anti-polic(e)ism

 * 1916, Edward Benjamin Krehbiel, Nationalism, War and Society: A Study of Nationalism and Its Concomitant, War, in Their Relation to Civilization; and of the Fundamentals and the Progress of the Opposition to War
 * There is no such thing as &quot;anti-policism,&quot; as there is anti-militarism. Why? Because military force is not the embodiment in power of the will of civilization, of the society of nations, in the way that the police represent the social will, the law ...
 * 1993, Lawrence J. Trudeau, Drama Criticism, Gale / Cengage Learning (ISBN 9780810379596) / earlier published as 1968, Commonweal, page 144:
 * Some of the jokes carry lethal laughter, some collapse with a dull, albeit iconoclastic, thud, and some are quite wholesomely silly. But underlying all the humor - black, brazen, or merely blatant – is not anti-Catholicism or anti-policism or whatnot; rather, the recognition of a fundamental, horrid injustice disguising itself as respect for the accepted decencies. If the swinish police inspector proclaims, &quot;It is for your own good that authority behaves in ..."