Police Quotes - Page 30

• It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.

  David Horowitz

  America, Allies, Heritage

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• The people are angry. It's running out of control. And unfortunately, there are a group of police that have become nothing more than enforcers for the political and financial crime bosses.

  Gerald Celente

  Running, People, Boss

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• I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Army, Mexican, Navy

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• We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas.

  Mona Caird

  Army, Ideas

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• I dont want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just dont know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

  Ariel Pink

  Country, Bully, Adults

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• Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

  Steig Larsson

  Rights, Years, Generations

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• I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.

  Ivica Dacic

  Surveillance, Private Life

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• Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.

  Rick Atkinson

  Giving Up, War, Order

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• Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

  Stockwell Day

  Responsibility, Gun, Crime

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• The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

  John Abizaid

  United States, Violence, Force

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• I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing

  Ray Davies

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• John Kerry fell off of his bicycle over the weekend. He went for a Sunday afternoon ride, fell off in front of the news media. Luckily, his hair broke the fall so it's not as serious. ... Thankfully, Senator Kerry was not seriously injured. In fact, when the police arrived, Kerry was well enough to give conflicting reports to the officers about what happened.

  Jay Leno

  Fall, Sunday, Weekend

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• Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Good Questions, Answers, World

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• Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.

  Basmah bint Saud

  Country, Religious, Men

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• I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

  Boman Irani

  Jobs, Character, Editors

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• Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

  Irwin Redlener

  People, Fireman, Daily Work

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• The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

  Ted Hughes

  Poetry, Progress, Literature

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• The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Half, Beard, Faces

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• The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.

  Geoff Mulgan

  September 11, Facts, Action

  "Talk your way out of conflict and misery" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2005.

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• The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Loyalty, Country, Past

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• Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth century; a theology which regarded Christianity as an admirable auxiliary to the police force, and a principle of decorum and of cohesion in society, but which carefully banished from it all enthusiasm, veiled or attenuated all its mysteries, and virtually reduced it to an authoritative system of moral philosophy.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Philosophy, Father, Atheism

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• The vast silence of Buddha overtakes
  and overrules the oncoming roar
  of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues;
  it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.

  Denise Levertov

  Block, Silence, Vietnam

  Denise Levertov, Peggy Rosenthal (2006). “Making Peace”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Boston, Safety, Granted

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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, Revolution

  The Secret Agent ch. 4 (1907)

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• You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

  Thomas Paine

  Fear, Complaining, Rising

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