Police Quotes - Page 20

• The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost a century, and after September 11, it became obvious it's better, safer, and more productive to change things instead of cleaning up after the mess.

  Tammy Bruce

  September 11, Complaining, World

  Tammy Bruce (2009). “The New American Revolution: How You Can Fight the Tyranny of the Left's Cultural and Moral Decay”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Politics, Socialism

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• Why is our media quick to find evil in our local police, but tnot in Islamic terror?

  Greg Gutfeld

  Islamic, Media, Evil

  "Gutfeld: Where there's no will, there's no way". www.foxnews.com. January 13, 2015.

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• The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Kings, Government, Tyrants

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.9

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• Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

  Pearl S. Buck

  Believe, Fighting, Gun

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• A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

  John F. Kennedy

  States, Tyranny, Grain

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.18, Best Books on

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• They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.

  Langston Hughes

  House, Intolerance, Harlem

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• When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the police.

  Langston Hughes

  Moon, Color, Talking

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.270, University of Missouri Press

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• Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments.

  Richard Turner

  Mean, Mirrors, Views

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• The police become necessary in human society
  Only at that junction in human society
  Where it is split between those who have and those who ain’t got

  Omali Yeshitela

  Splits, Junction, Humans

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• A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Country, Men, Society

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

  Paul Valery

  Order, Two, Wish

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• Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

  Karl Marx

  Museums, Civilization, Dancer

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

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• When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

  Clarence Day

  Legacy, Eras, England

  Clarence Day (1928). “Thoughts without words”

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• May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Thinking, May

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.248, Image

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• A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

  Ugo Betti

  Doctors, Vague, Fronts

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• Congress should consult experts and consider alternatives and make 100% sure that any step it takes to police the Internet doesn't change the Internet as we know it.

  Ron Wyden

  Experts, Alternatives, Steps

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• In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Funny, Girl, Buddhist

  Cynthia Heimel (2002). “If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!”, p.41, Grove Press

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• Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I feel as though I'm wearing a Hefty trash bag. And it's last year's Hefty trash bag.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Horse, New York

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.143, Crown Archetype

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• Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and effetive, for the protections of all the rights of person, property and character, as such a sound and comprehensive education and training, as our system of Common Schools could be made to impart; and would not the payment of a sufficient tax to make such education and training universal, be the cheapest means of self-protection and insurance?

  Horace Mann

  Education, School, Character

  Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.113

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• POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Protection, Force, Participation

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.184, University of Georgia Press

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• It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.

  Germaine Greer

  Believe, Long, Missing

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.16, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

  Ben Elton

  Writing, Hot, Done

  "Ben Elton applauds 'vibrant' standup comedy scene" by Matt Trueman, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship.

  John R. Allen

  Real, Difficult Situations, Soldier

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• If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

  Floyd Abrams

  Thinking, People, Perception

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