Quotes and Sayings About Police
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Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.
-- A. P. HerbertSource : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert. Chapter "Is It a Free Country?", 1935.
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In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
-- Abel Hermant -
Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.
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Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
-- Ahmet Necdet Sezer -
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We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov -
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.
-- Al AlvarezSource : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing
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I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.
-- Al Capone -
Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.
-- Al Gore -
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We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
-- Al SharptonSource : "NYC Police Investigating Shooting Death by Police of Groom on His Wedding Day". www.foxnews.com. November 25, 2006.
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Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.
-- Al Sharpton -
I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.
-- Alan AutrySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.'
-- Alan Brazil -
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If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to the authorities, the FBI, the police, the Democratic (Party) anybody that would listen. I wouldn't depend on one guy with the Department of Transportation.
-- Alan Colmes -
Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
-- Albert Camus -
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
-- Alva MyrdalSource : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.
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Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.
-- Amandla StenbergSource : Amandla @amandlastenberg, twitter.com. April 28, 2015.
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POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.
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In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.
-- Andy Summers -
I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.
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There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.
-- Angela DavisSource : "Angela Davis: 'There is an unbroken line of police violence in the US that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2014.
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Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.
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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.
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Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!
-- Anne FortierSource : Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.70, Ballantine Books
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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 implicating the Fourth Amendment.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
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Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.
-- Antonio Villaraigosa -
I dont want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just dont know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.
-- Ariel Pink -
The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient
-- Aron Nimzowitsch -
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The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.
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The amount of gender violence that I experience is absolutely extraordinary. And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that's directed at me in social media.
-- Ashley JuddSource : ashley judd @AshleyJudd, twitter.com. March 17, 2015.