Police Quotes - Page 39

• We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals.

  John Kasich

  Data Collection, Goal, Community

  "Rep. Donna Edwards, Freddie Gray family attorney on bridging the gap between race and justice; Gov. John Kasich considers presidential bid". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 3, 2015.

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• It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Waiting, Feelings

  "Dr. Ben Carson: Health Care Is 'Upside-Down'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

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• Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what a cop's world is like. But in truth that world is seldom revealed with anything approaching verisimilitude. We get it with The Wagon.

  Daniel Horan

  Drama, Thinking, People

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• Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.

  Daniel Horan

  People, Television, World

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• As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Light, Publicity, Nocturnal

  The Conduct of Life "Worship" (1860)

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• I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop and frisk,' or whatever terminology they use, is doomed to failure. It's that simple.

  William Bratton

  Sorry, Simple, America

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• Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

  Curtis Mayfield

  Brother, Political, Actors

  Song: If There's Hell Below

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• Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.

  Thomas Huxley

  Dog, Eye, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.

  Edward Everett

  Horse, Military, Order

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.609

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• I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Motorcycle, Racing, Driving

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2015). “On My Own: The Years Since The White House”, p.135, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

  Heinrich Heine

  Art, Exercise, Order

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• I can't stand to hear my own voice. If one of my songs comes on in a café, I'll run out right away and come back with the police.

  Charli XCX

  Running, Song, Voice

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• laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.

  Margaret Mead

  Laughter, Spring, Pride

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• Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Military, Should Have, Law

  Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (2008). “Collected stories and other writings”

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• The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Dream, Fantasy, Let Me

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• I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Way, Married, Murder

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• The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

  Hannah Arendt

  Children, Yesterday, Today

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• To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religion, Dissing, Form

  Salman Rushdie (2008). “Step Across This Line”, p.81, Random House

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• I`m a former mayor. I know that being a cop is not an easy job. But when
  police officers misbehave, they`ve got to be held accountable.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Cop, Easy

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• [In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Running, Country, Color

  Source: www.caperi.com

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• we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to pay good money for nothing. But fire and police protection aren't nothing. ... Roads, bridges, airports, and mass transit systems aren't nothing. National parks, clean air, and clear water aren't nothing. A safe food supply, functioning schools with well-trained teachers, and well-equipped hospitals aren't vaporous apparitions either.

  Arianna Huffington

  Teacher, School, Bridges

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• The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

  George W. Bush

  Wall, Heart, Law

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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• ... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.

  Caroline Gordon

  Passion, Cities, Greek

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• If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.

  Alva Myrdal

  Race, Insane, Realizing

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.

  Josephine Tey

  Writing, Cities, People

  Josephine Tey, Robert Barnard (1996). “The Singing Sands”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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