Best Police Thoughts
1165 Police quotes by 874 unique authors
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central…
— Edward Abbey
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Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no…
— Edward Abbey
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The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the…
— Willy Brandt
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The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to…
— Will Durant
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Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but…
— Jurgen Habermas
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We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't…
— Homer
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The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without…
— Anthony Kennedy
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Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
— Margery Allingham
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The soldiers feel that the Police are not serious with the criminal elements and that they are corrupt. The army had to come in and…
— Yoweri Museveni
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I don't pick up people. This is the work of the police. If there's anybody with a case, it's the police, not me.
— Yoweri Museveni
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Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered…
— James Joyce
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If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.
— Leon Panetta
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Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact…
— Frank Herbert
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Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way…
— Robert Nozick
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The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill the protester's constitutional…
— James Lafferty
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Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.
— Henning Mankell
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If people work together, if they can keep a cooperative spirit and use their ingenuity and balance it all with good humor and good will,…
— Harold Ramis
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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.
— George Bernard Shaw
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You're some special kind of hostage, that's for sure. Maybe, well, do you think my purpose in life is to give myself up to the…
— Unknown Author
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Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.
— Unknown Author
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I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it…
— Stephen Fry
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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway…
— Mae West
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Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I…
— Dick Cavett
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There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets…
— Unknown Author
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