Policemen Quotes

• Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

  Benjamin Spock

  Class, Ideas, Racism

  "Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior". Book by Benjamin Spock, p. 103, 1970.

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• However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Sarcastic, Men

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• The police are the public and the public are the police.

  Robert Peel

  Police, Thought Police

  "Introduction to Criminal Justice" by Larry Siegel, Cengage Learning, (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

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• Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• A functioning police state needs no police.

  William S. Burroughs

  Government, Police, Atheism

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Jobs, Law, Police

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• I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!

  Richard Pryor

  Funny, White, Zimbabwe

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• There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

  Calvin Harris

  Voice, Males, Dance Music

  "Calvin Harris On Dance-Pop As A 'Futuristic Experiment'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.krvs.org. December 8, 2012.

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• The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

  Huey Newton

  Gun, Hands, Racism

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• The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

  Ronnie Barker

  Inspirational, Funny, Police

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

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• I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Passionate, Wet

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• My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

  John Dillinger

  People, Fireman, Stealing

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

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• Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

  David Mamet

  Police, Groups, Citizens

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Motivational, Veterans Day

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  There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

  Jack Nicholson

  Relationship, Girlfriend, Lying

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• The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

  Robert Peel

  Giving, Community, Police

  "Introduction to Criminal Justice". Book by Larry Siegel (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

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• I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

  Robin Tunney

  Aunt, Grandfather, Chicago

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• As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Years, World

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• I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.

  Cynthia Payne

  Falling In Love, Fall

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• As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

  Cyril Connolly

  Life, Fear, Publishing Books

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 10

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• Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Hair, Police, Facts

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• I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

  John Ratzenberger

  Soldier, Sailor

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• I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Children, Lasts, Next

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

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