“ They prey on their own with extortion and protection rackets, in a culture where people don't go to the police and where most police don't speak the language. ”
- Ronald Goldstock- Copy
- 3K
“ It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach. ”
- Felix Frankfurter- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Writing is like this-you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth. ”
- Paul Engle- Copy
- 2.5K
“ There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
- 111
“ A show of police force worthy of a banana republic is the latest attraction on the cobbled streets of Georgetown. ”
- Francis X. Clines- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever. ”
- Mario Cuomo- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Truths begin by a conflict with the police- and end by calling them in. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 3.6K
“ For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments. ”
- James Brady- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field. ”
- Dusty Baker- Copy
- 3.5K
“ To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods. ”
- Frances Perkins- Copy
- 3.9K
“ She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
- 1K
“ Hunger allows no choice To the citizens or the police; We must love one another or die. ”
- W.H. Auden- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police. ”
- Keith Richards- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man. ”
- Margery Allingham- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum. ”
- Joe Orton- Copy
- 2.2K
“ A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. ”
- Dennis Miller- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Whenever I hear a dog continually barking, my reaction is one of relief-that it's not my dog making all that racket and inciting the neighbors to call the police. ”
- John McCarthy- Copy
- 438
“ Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman. ”
- Thurgood Marshall- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game. ”
- Frank McKinney Hubbard- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.2K
“ A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 3.2K
“ However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
- 2.1K
“ instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities. ”
- Tony Blair- Copy
- 3K
“ The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them. ”
- Randal Keith Milholland- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
- 2.7K
“ When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today. ”
- Jacques Prévert- Copy
- 1.1K
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