Health Quote by Katherine Boo

“An overweight officer, having delivered a batch of children to the home, started telling one of the guards about his heart problem. “You think…

— Katherine Boo

“As Abdul and his family had already learned, the police station was not a place where victimhood was redressed and public safety held dear.…

— Katherine Boo

“The white policeman was a man who gave an impression of heaviness. It wasn't that he was fat, but he sagged as if with…

— John Lanchester

“There were times when the world did not need policemen, because what it really did need was for somebody who knew what they were…

— Terry Pratchett

“Kumar was a man who felt in the end he had lost everything, even his Englishness, and could then only meet every situation—even the…

— Paul Scott

“Harold walked with these strangers and listened. He judged no one, although as the day wore on, and time and places began to melt,…

— Rachel Joyce

“I have rather an unwholesome weakness for policemen.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“But then she reminded herself that there were plenty of people who were afraid of the police, even if they had clear consciences. These…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“He did not expect reasonable conduct from human beings; most people were candidates for protective restraint. He simply wished they would leave him alone!—all”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“to follow one’s instincts with due regard to the policeman round the corner, had not acted very well there: it was because Cronshaw had…

— William Somerset Maugham

“The mayor was the most dangerous of individuals. He possessed, in equal amounts, unhealthy doses of charm and ambition. He was a driven opportunist.”

— Marc Fitten

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers