Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Paul Hirst

Born: May 20, 1946
Died: June 17, 2003 (aged 57)
Bio: Paul Quentin Hirst was a British sociologist and political theorist. He became Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck, University of London in 1985 and held the post until his death from a stroke and brain haemorrhage.
Known for:
- Globalization in Question (1996)
- Associative democracy (1994)
- Space and Power
- Knowledge and the curriculum (1975)
- War and Power in the 21st Century (2001)