Policemen Quotes - Page 10

• Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of conversation between society and biology has always been a policeman or a soldier and his gun.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Gun, Soldier, Patterns

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Government, Self

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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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• 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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• When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's Ah! When constabulary duty's to be done A policeman's lot is not a happy one.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Done, Littles

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• Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.

  Joe Orton

  Squirrels, Red, Protected

  'Loot' (1967) act 1

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• I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

  John Kasich

  War, Support, World

  John Kasich's remarks during the CNN-Facebook Republican Presidential Second Debate at the Venetian Las Vegas hosted by Wolf Blitzer, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. December 16, 2015.

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• Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE.

  Trevor Phillips

  Football, Children, Party

  The Times, October 29, 2004.

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• America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of people were armed in the theater in Aurora, they would have been able to take down this nutjob in body armor and military style artillery. When in fact almost every policeman in the country would tell you that that would have only increased the tragedy and added to the carnage.

  Bob Costas

  Country, Military, Believe

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• If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Thieves, Made, Investigation

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• I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.

  Thomas Sowell

  Silly, People, Soldier

  "Live: Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Isaac, www.aei.org. January 1, 2004.

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• If you replace a soldier with a machine, you take away the possibility of the soldier or the policeman to not do something the state asks of him. He may think it's unethical to do it. A machine doesn't have that critical perspective.

  Jose Padilha

  Thinking, Perspective, Soldier

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• We tell our kids that policemen are good and God protects us and our country is noble, and at a certain point - and for some it comes quite early, five or six years old - we start to realize that it's all a facade.

  Harold Ramis

  Country, Kids, Years

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

  Isabel Allende

  Gun, Doctors, Experts

  "The Mystery Of Isabel Allende: Author Explores New Genre". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, nwpr.org. January 25, 2014.

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• The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Class, Criminals

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

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• Remember, only a policeman is allowed to express himself on an expressway.

  Phyllis Diller

  Police, Remember

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• When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers people to be soldiers.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Hair, Government, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Responsible, Notion, Psychiatrist

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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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• When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman.

  Medgar Evers

  Home, School, Cities

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• What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

  Dennis Farina

  Might, Things To Do, Entertaining

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• I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

  Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

  Criminals, Disappear, Schemes

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• The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.812, Hamilton Books

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• The USA is a threat to world peace. Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the ones that should decide for the people of Iraq what should be done with their government and their leadership. All that [the USA] wants is Iraqi oil. [Blair is] simply the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain.

  Nelson Mandela

  Government, Usa, Oil

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