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• Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.

  L. Neil Smith

  Gun, Muggers, Never Forget

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• Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Long, Tears, Like Me

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• Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.

  Louis L'Amour

  Violence, Firsts, Folks

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume Two 12-Book Bundle”, p.157, Bantam

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• The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Want, Likes

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• Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very expressive and you appear a lot more authoritative if you keep them covered up. The advantage of this is that it makes a lot harder for cops to see anything more than six foot off the ground. Which is why painting rooftops and bridges is so easy.

  Banksy

  Eye, Covered Up, Security Guards

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Thinking, Car, Together

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Sun Also Rises”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• I played in front of every conceivable audience you could face: an all-black audience, all-white, firemen's fairs, policemen's balls, in front of supermarkets, bar mitzvahs, weddings, drive-in theaters. I'd seen it all before I ever walked into a recording studio.

  Bruce Springsteen

  White, Black, Bars

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• A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

  Will Rogers

  Hands, Prison, Goods

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.164, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Athletes and musicians make astronomical amounts of money. People get paid $100 million to throw a baseball! Shouldn't we all take less and pass some of that money onto others? Think about firefighters, teachers and policemen. We should celebrate people that are intellectually smart and trying to make this world a better place.

  Kid Rock

  Baseball, Teacher, Smart

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• Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Police, Soldier, Training

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• In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore.

  Alan Moore

  Heart, Government, People

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• The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Prejudice, Done, Unions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

  Robert Frost

  Successful, Law, Feet

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• When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

  Simon Cowell

  Rights, Apples, Worry

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• All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Girl, Humor

  My Autobiography ch. 10 (1964)

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• Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Light, Disease, Publicity

  Other People's Money ch. 5 (1914) See RalphWaldo Emerson 42

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• Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Feelings, Sad Depressed

  "The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories".

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• ...Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and smaller until at one point, it could be bounded in the hat of a hopeless policeman.

  Michael Chabon

  Trying, Hats, World

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• It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.

  Michael Chabon

  Mistake, Night, Gossip

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• I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

  Keith Richards

  Drug, Problem

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• Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

  William Golding

  Strong, Children, School

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• So you've got no name?" I asked. "They couldn't think of one ugly enough?" The creature snarled, stepping over the unconscious policeman. "Set animal is too hard to say," I decided. "I'll call you Leroy." Apparently, Leroy didn't like his name. He lunged.

  Rick Riordan

  Animal, Thinking, Names

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Feet, Ancient

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)”, p.154, Random House

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• A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Mother, Wife

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• I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.

  Gore Vidal

  Believe, Fighting, Gay

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