Quotes about police




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"He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die."

Baldwin, James on police    Share


"The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on police    Share

"A functioning police state needs no police."

Burroughs, William S. on police
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"A really good detective never gets married."

Chandler, Raymond on police    Share

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

Crisp, Quentin on police    Share

"There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on police    Share

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"We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on police    Share

"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them."

Hitchcock, Alfred on police    Share

"If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter."

Humboldt, Karl Wilhelm Von on police    Share

"With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand."

Lorca, Federico Garcia on police    Share

"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."

Mamet, David on police    Share

"You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern."

Shakespeare, William on police    Share

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