Police Quotes

Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?

Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.

The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder." "A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes," Evie said excitedly. "It won't be a minute.

No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.

All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

There's no question that there's been a breach in the trust between urban - especially urban community, African-American and minority communities and the police in major American cities.

We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most Americans think it's true.

A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

I don't think that any law enforcement got in trouble for the event in Eugene where police sprayed the tree-sitters who were protesting the cutting of the trees for the parking garage.

I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!

I've been with police on patrol. When you have a gun, you just feel different. There's a protective level and you feel all those feelings. You feel a little bit macho and a little bit frightened.

In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.

Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.

Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day.

I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.

We are not governed by armies or police, but by ideas.

I wouldn't call it "police reform," but I would say that police procedure enhancement could be helpful - these police shootings are absolutely horrible.

A lot of police shootings are justified, but many others are not.

Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.

It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.

So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

Give the park police more ammo.

I aint know the police was from Babylon And I aint know Im cold just like an avalanche

I see you've destroyed another police vehicle. Perhaps you now hold the record.

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

When I'm walking around, I'm sometimes just perplexed at people who seem like everyday people, people who are on juries, who are in the police force, who are in control of my life in many ways.

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.

Never sue the police. The odds are in their favour.

When the case against me was dropped, the police simply said "no further action". They do that with everybody.

Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.

Every profession has its own culture, but the police look at the world differently to everybody else. I call it a 'healthy culture of suspicion'.

I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

I know this in a way from my police background: the second you mention, "The system's racist," one-third of the country simply puts down the book and says, "Oh, it's one of those guys."

Lenny Bruce died from an overdose of police

The market is like the police: of course you need it, but if it becomes the central organizing principle of your culture then you're in deep trouble.

I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.

The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.

The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.

Wow. I feel like in this riot of people, I have been kicked in the stomach, but by the giddy police. Forget about the need for oxygen. My mouth wants to go back to the place it just left.