Policemen Quotes - Page 6

• I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

  Rand Paul

  Government, Usa, Businessman

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• Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

  Lord Acton

  Spiritual, Men, Motive

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• Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.

  Nancy Mitford

  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  Nathan Gamble

  Real, Hero, Hard Work

  "A Conversation with Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Nathan Gamble of 'Dolphin Tale'". Interview with Paula K. Parker, www.catholic.org. September 20, 2011.

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• 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

  Disorder, Preserves

  "A Handbook for Psychological Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement". Book by Cary D. Rostow and Robert D. Davis, p. 18, 2004.

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• We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that.

  Enrico Colantoni

  Tv Shows, People, Police

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• We have been at war almost constantly since the last century. And it has not helped our institutions. Congress no longer represents the people. The courts do not practice justice any more. The armies never stop playing at being the policemen of the world and of oil.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Army, Practice

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

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• All the Chicago demonstrators wanted to do was to sleep in the park and kick policemen with razor blades in their shoes.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Sleep, Shoes, Chicago

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• It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?

  Julia Alvarez

  Secret, Sims, Being Afraid

  Julia Alvarez (2007). “Before We Were Free”, p.20, Laurel Leaf

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• Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Issues, Cities, Shopping

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• There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there... But if orange trees and apple trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell them.

  Jacque Fresco

  Orange Trees, Apples, Needs

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• Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism and Mutualism, resting upon property, involve a development of the private policeman not at all compatible with my notion of freedom.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Effort, Development, Demand

  Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell (2005). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.79, SUNY Press

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• Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Order, Cooking

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• What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

  Polly Adler

  Father, Real, Cities

  Polly Adler (1953). “A House is Not a Home”, p.9, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Kids

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• Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

  Orson Welles

  Jobs, Police, Liberty

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• Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut out her kidneys with a surgical knife,’ Mau Sen said, his face stony and white. ‘I think that removing the organs of convicts while they are still alive is too much. It completely contravenes medical ethics.’ ‘This is a dissection class, not a political meeting,’ Sun Chunlin said.

  Ma Jian

  Cutting, Thinking, Counter Culture

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• Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

  E. W. Howe

  Honesty, Powerful, Mistake

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• He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Long, Able

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• . . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot be ruled out for tomorrow, it is-beyond being a duty-also fear. Every morning when I get up I can read the Auschwitz number on my forearm, something that touches the deepest and most closely intertwined roots of my existence; indeed I am not even sure if this is not my entire existence. Then I feel approximately as I did back then when I got a taste of the first blow from a policeman's fist. Every day anew I lose my trust in the world.

  Jean Amery

  Morning, Mean, Blow

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• We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

  Jimmy Carter

  America, Desire, Doe

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation.

  Alex Cox

  Motorcycle, Reservations, Indian

  Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

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• When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

  George Orwell

  Men, Clubs, Sides

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• The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Order, Government

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