Policemen Quotes - Page 12

• Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

  Paul Auster

  Careers, Doctors, Long

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.247, Faber & Faber

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• The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper... In all these things, and many more, you'll find America. In all these things, you'll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.

  Audie Murphy

  Children, Mean, Texas

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• To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Mind, Thieves, Inward

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• I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

  Kyril Bonfiglioli

  Wine, Thinking, Wife

  Kyril Bonfiglioli (2004). “Don't Point that Thing at Me”, p.18, The Overlook Press

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• Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Watches, Citizens

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

  Billy Wilder

  Film Directing, Sycophants, Directors

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• When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.

  Dennis Franz

  Real, People, Should

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• My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job.

  Bob Odenkirk

  Jobs, Law, Interesting

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• You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Writing, Tree, Woods

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• You don't ever want to say to a young person, You can't, or, You are no good. Some people might be able to do it, but I don't think I am a policeman for literature. So I tell them, Sweat it out, do your best.

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, Sweat, People

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• It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Men, Prison Guards

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on drugs is lost." But to demand a yes or no answer to the question "Is the war against drugs being won?" is like demanding a yes or no answer to the question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" Never can an unimaginative and fundamentally stupid metaphor have exerted a more baleful effect upon proper thought.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  War, Stupid, Wife

  Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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• Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Bed, Half, Way

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• For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.

  Alvaro Uribe

  Communication, Gun, Soldier

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• A policeman stopped me and said: Would you please blow into this bag, sir? I said: What for, officer? He said: My chips are too hot.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Blow

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• It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Men, Sadism, Social

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• They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Mistake, Thinking, Two

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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• Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

  Georges Limbour

  Wine, Essence, Police

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• One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.

  Margery Allingham

  Law, Two, May

  Margery Allingham (1969). “The Allingham Case-book”

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• Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Kings, Soldier, Atheism

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• One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Anarchy, Enough

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• I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor - even President, it seemed. And for the first time in the history of mankind, something new, called an astronaut. But like so many kids brought up on a steady diet of Westerns, I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero - that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. And in my heart of hearts I still track the remnants of that dream wherever I go, in my endless ride into the setting sun.

  Bill Hicks

  Dream, Hero, Heart

  "Bill Hicks: Revelations". Documentary, Comedy, 1993.

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• I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

  Rebekah Brooks

  Police, Payment, Officers

  "Live Blog: Murdochs, Brooks, police testify in phone-hacking scandal". news.blogs.cnn.com. July 19, 2011.

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• After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: - I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.

  Stan Brakhage

  Opportunity, Doctors, Average

  Stan Brakhage (1982). “Brakhage scrapbook: collected writings, 1964-1980”, Treacle Pr

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• A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Urban, Planning, Traffic

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