Policemen Quotes - Page 9

• I think what education gives you is a voice. It gives you a way of talking to a judge. When a policeman pulls you off to the side of the road, you have a voice. When you cross a border, you have a voice. When you are writing to express your opinions, you have a voice.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Writing, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they have agreed to in society simplistically - like children are sacred, the cult of the child, this cult of professional parenthood, and of course religion, and respect for policemen and the law, and all of these untouchable areas. I like attacking those beliefs, but in with good sound thinking, and an unusual approach.

  George Carlin

  Children, Thinking, Law

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

  Christopher Morley

  Morning, Children, Nurse

  Christopher Morley, Ken Kalfus, Walter Jack Duncan (1990). “Christopher Morley's Philadelphia”, p.3, Fordham Univ Press

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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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• 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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• One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it, and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, "Where do you live?" I said, "Right here!" Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Home, Humor

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

  Rand Paul

  Government, Usa, Businessman

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, United States, World

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• Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in society would expect a policeman should do. That temptation hits the police force at the same time as the temptation to take those drugs that are readily available hits the people on the streets.

  Denzel Washington

  Past, People, Drug

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.

  Jane Goodall

  Caring, Thinking, Bravery

  "Dr. Jane Goodall: Healing and possibility of peace". Live chat, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2001.

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• [The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way to get rid of all those hours spent listening to bad call-centre music? Do policemen, academics, teachers and doctors really need to spend half their time filling in forms? Or can we imagine another world?

  Gillian Tett

  Teacher, Doctors, Challenges

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• Remember. You are a physician. You are not a policeman nor are you a minister of religion. You must take people as they come. Remember, too that though you will generally know more about the condition than the patient, it is the patient who has the condition and this if nothing else bestows on him or her a kind of wisdom. You have the knowledge but that does not entitle you to be superior. Knowledge makes you the servant not the master.

  Alan Bennett

  Remember You, Remembers You, People

  Alan Bennett (2011). “Smut: Two Unseemly Stories”, p.39, Profile Books

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• The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all. When there is enough goods in a store, the purchasers can come whenever they want to. When there is little goods, the purchasers are compelled to stand in line. When the lines are very long, it is necessary to appoint a policeman to keep order. Such is the starting point of the power of the Soviet bureaucracy. It "knows" who is to get something and who has to wait.

  Leon Trotsky

  Struggle, Order, Long

  Leon Trotsky, (2013). “The Revolution Betrayed”, p.88, Read Books Ltd

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• In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

  Ginger Baker

  Virginia, Firefighter, Honor

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• The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Games, Police

  The Secret Agent ch. 4 (1907)

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• There is a thin line between the policeman and the criminal. The best cops are always crossed. The best cops are the ones who are able to think like criminals. But for a quirk of fate, they might have been criminals.

  William Friedkin

  Fate, Thinking, Lines

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Clever, Character, Play

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• There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

  Brendan Behan

  Miserable, Made, Situation

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• Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

  Billy Sunday

  Criminals, Reason, Sinner

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• The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

  Dean Acheson

  Trouble, Economy, Free Market

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