Quotes with police

  • The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.
  • If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.
  • First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.
  • Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria.
  • If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.
  • People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
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  • Albert Einstein Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Karl Marx Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Bill Dedman A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • William S. Burroughs A functioning police state needs no police.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Somerset Maugham A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • John F. Kennedy A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler A profoundly disturbing thing you discover very quickly traveling in Cuba is that the most dangerous person for Cubans isn't the police or even the secret police; it's their neighbor. Anyone can report you for anything 'outside' the revolution - even if you haven't done it yet.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • William S. Burroughs After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anthony Kennedy 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 implicating the Fourth Amendment.
    Anthony Kennedy
    American lawyer and jurist (1936 - )
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  • Bobby Hull First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Bryan Adams I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Ann Coulter If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Ben Elton If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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