Police Quotes - Page 18

• If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

  Leon Panetta

  Agents, Force, Ends

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• Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

  Frank Herbert

  Army, Enemy, Weakness

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.158, Penguin

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• Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way to behave towards someone; also it does not fit the original motivation for studying or entering philosophy. That motivation is puzzlement, curiousity, a desire to understand, not a desire to produce uniformity of belief. Most people do not want to become thought-police. The philosophical goal of explanation rather than proof not only is morally better, it is more in accord with one's philosophical motivation.

  Robert Nozick

  Motivation, Philosophy, Nice

  Robert Nozick (1981). “Philosophical Explanations”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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• The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill the protester's constitutional rights. This judge's ruling is wonderful.

  James Lafferty

  Rights, Judging, Chill

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• If people work together, if they can keep a cooperative spirit and use their ingenuity and balance it all with good humor and good will, then there's nothing to be afraid of. That's the sappy part of it, ... On the other hand, every Halloween for many years when my kids were trick-or-treating I would put on my 'Ghostbusters' jumpsuit with a police flashlight to protect all the kids from ghosts.

  Harold Ramis

  Halloween, Kids, Hands

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• Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Games, Political, Campaigns

  Misalliance (1914) p. 85

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• You're some special kind of hostage, that's for sure. Maybe, well, do you think my purpose in life is to give myself up to the police? Do you think God wants me to spend the rest of my life paying for my sins?

  Brian Nichols

  God, Thinking, Giving

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• Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

  Ron Bolton

  Sports, Guy, Stadiums

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• I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.

  Stephen Fry

  Mother, Suicide, Teenager

  "Why Russia's Sochi Olympics are now a battleground for gay rights" by Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2013.

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• Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

  Mae West

  Home, Sassy, Pockets

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• Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."

  Dick Cavett

  Sex, People, Mind

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• There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets and all of the noises of San Francisco. Mostly, though, there were the voices. Whispering to him. Reminding him of the dark things he had done - all of the little things he had forgotten, all of the big things he had tried to forget. Mostly they reminded him of his biggest secret, a betrayal of trust and friendship long ago. He squeezed his eyes shut as if that could somehow keep the voices away.

  Don Bassingthwaite

  Friendship, Betrayal, Eye

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• Drug offenses ... may be regarded as the prototypes of non-victim crimes today. The private nature of the sale and use of these drugs has led the police to resort to methods of detection and surveillance that intrude upon our privacy, including illegal search, eavesdropping, and entrapment. Indeed, the successful prosecution of such cases often requires police infringement of the constitutional protections that safeguard the privacy of individuals.

  John Kaplan

  Successful, Drug, Liberty

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• Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.

  Peter Bruce

  Soccer, May, Threatening

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• ID cards do not tell the police who is about to commit a suicide bombing.

  John Wadham

  Suicide, Cards, Terrorism

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• The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules

  Kaz Cooke

  Fashion, Jobs, Thinking

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• Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.

  Trent Jamieson

  Zero, Fighting, Dark

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• I hate The Police so much I'd probably assassinate Sting,
  My System of a Down Rages Against the Machine.
  Tie you up in a Slipknot and hold Alice In Chains inside her dreams.

  Chino XL

  Dream, Hate, Rap

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• Take a look at the police and how they treat you,
  Take a look at these corporations that cheat you.
  Democrats and Republicans are all see-through.
  Now we votin for the lesser of two evils...
  Man, don't let 'em deceive you.
  This is an autocracy, not a democracy,
  But to call this a democracy without mock interest
  In the laws of society? That's called hypocrisy.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Men, Law

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• The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there will not be meaningful reform in the Los Angeles Police Department until the culture is changed.

  Erwin Chemerinsky

  Meaningful, Reality, Reform

  "Report faults LAPD culture for corruption", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2000.

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• If Dr. Mahathir thinks that by ordering the police to act like gangsters he will frighten the people from supporting this reformation movement, he is dreaming. I think he has cut himself off from reality.

  Wan Azizah Wan Ismail

  Dream, Cutting, Reality

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• Through baseball we channel boys desire for exercise and let off their explosive violence without letting them get into the police court.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Exercise, Boys

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Gun, Historical, Tanks

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• When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them and the thief? Darn little! They hide behind the excuse that they're legislating democratically. The fact they do it by a majority vote has no moral significance whatsoever. Numerical might does not constitute right, no more than a lynch mob can justify its act because a majority participated.

  H. L. Richardson

  Real, Rights, Majority Vote

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• I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

  Abdallah II

  Thinking, Class, People

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