Police Quotes

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them. (Alfred Hitchcock)
A functioning police state needs no police. View quote
William S. Burroughs
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. View quote
Emil Cioran
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. View quote
Richard Perle
Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it. View quote
Edward Snowden
When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today. View quote
Jacques Prévert
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. View quote
Bruce Schneier
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement. View quote
Barack Obama
That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. (William S. Burroughs)
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police. View quote
Keith Richards
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. View quote
George W. Bush
Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police. View quote
Todor Zhivkov
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. View quote
Benjamin Spock
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. View quote
Benjamin Harrison
Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department. View quote
Al Sharpton
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. View quote
Mario Cuomo
A crowded police court docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty. View quote
Mark Twain
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable. (Elia Kazan)
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. View quote
Quentin Crisp
There are no police to deal with the thousands of squalid little crimes like this committed every day in the city. View quote
Norman Lewis
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. View quote
Elihu Root
I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me. View quote
Mike Myers