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.
Philip Rieff

Born: December 15, 1922
Died: July 1, 2006 (aged 83)
Bio: Philip Rieff was an American sociologist and cultural critic, who taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvania from 1961 until 1992.
Known for:
- The triumph of the therapeutic (1966)
- Freud: The Mind of the Moralist (1959)
- My life among the deathworks (2006)
- The feeling intellect (1990)