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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

  Gary Bauer

  Hurt, Mistake, Law

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• The confrontation was not created by the police; the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

  Richard J. Daley

  People, Police, Gentleman

  "A Handbook for Psychological Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement". Book by Cary D. Rostow and Robert D. Davis, 2004.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence, I've discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that's filled with masterpieces I've never heard of.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Adults, Criminals

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Shakespeare Wrote for Money”, McSweeneys Books

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• A policeman's lot is not a happy one

  W. S. Gilbert

  The Pirates of Penzance act 2 (1879)

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• There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

  Patrick Kavanagh

  Art, Understood, Ifs

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

  Bertolt Brecht

  Writing, Tree, Woods

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Source: collider.com

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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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