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“There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.”

Ifs Art Understood Works Of Art Policemen

Author:Patrick Kavanagh

“I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.”

Thinking Wife Wine Policemen Madden Funny Wife

Book:Don't Point that Thing at Me

Source: Don't Point that Thing at Me

“Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.”

Law Watches Ought Citizens Republic Execution Citizenship Policemen

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He gave me a real dressing down, but let me go.”

People Knows Should Real Let Me Dressings Policemen Disbelief Let Me Go

Author:Dennis Franz

“You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen.”

Writing Tree Woods Policemen

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

“It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.”

Source: Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays

“Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.”

Thinking World Whole America Force Divine Whole World Policemen Make You Think

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.”

Writing I Can Money Cities Seven Cents Cop Policemen Because I Can Metropolis

Book:Great Speeches

Source: Great Speeches

“Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.”

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Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.”

Men Wanted Black Doctors Lawyer Policemen

Author:David Alan Grier

“The USA is a threat to world peace. Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the ones that should decide for the people of Iraq what should be done with their government and their leadership. All that [the USA] wants is Iraqi oil. [Blair is] simply the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain.”

People World Want Should States Done Government United United States Threat Iraq Oil Ministers Usa Britain Prime Prime Minister Policemen Blair

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.”

Giving Has Beens Book Attention Objects Materials Masters Higher Function Library Missions Rage Librarian Policemen

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.”

Men May Mean Self Use Government Purpose Force Acting Rights Violence Protect Defense Agents Resorts Policemen Self Defense Use Of Force Physical Violence

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.”

Thinking Turns Taught Trust Jungle Policemen Noir Asphalt Film Noir Legit

Author:Ben Maddow

“I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.”

Married Chicago Grandfather Aunt My Grandfather Policemen

Author:Robin Tunney

“I’ve never argued against any technology being used when you have an imminent threat, an active crime going on. If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash, I don’t care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him.”

Ifs Care Used Technology Crime Weapons Dollars Threat Don't Care Active Stores I Don't Care Fifty Cash Policemen Liquor Drones Liquor Stores

Author:Rand Paul

“An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.”

Writing I Can Hard Three Cities Half Four Honest Labor Letters Seven Hunger Average Humble Cents Cop Fifteen Vocabulary Policemen Because I Can Wretchedness Metropolis English Words

Author:Mark Twain

“As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.”

Way Four Streets Stupid Brother One Way Giants My Brother Censorship Traffic Policemen Copper

Book:Nods and Becks

Source: Nods and Becks

“The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.”

Terrorism Terrorist Policemen Baskets

Author:Joseph Conrad

“In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.”

America Class Hero England Working Class Policemen Traitor Working Class Hero

Author:Martin Amis

“When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman.”

Looks Home School Black Community Cities Racism Policemen Crossings Fireman

Author:Medgar Evers

“What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.”

Might Left Behinds Things To Do Right Thing Entertaining Policemen

Author:Dennis Farina

“There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.”

Voice Can Do Males Policemen Dance Music

Author:Calvin Harris

“I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.”

Thinking Writing Children Sometimes Novel Etc Drivers Bus Ironic Exes Truck Policemen Seamen Truck Driver Bus Driver

Author:Brian Jacques