765 Quotes About Police

  • Author Alan Sillitoe
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    We know you weren't in the house', he said, starting up again, cranking himself with the handle. They always say 'We', 'We', never 'I' 'I' - as if they feel braver and righter knowing there's a lot of them against only one.

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  • Author Kenneth Eade
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    They seemed more like machines than humans, and, let’s face it, they are a civilian’s army. An army whose soldiers dressed in costumes and walked and talked like robots, with guns strapped to their waist belts, always looking for an enemy.

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  • Author Anina Ciuciu
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    Un jour, maman faisait la manche avec Maria dans ses bras. Les policiers lui ont demande de partir et, comme ils voyaent qu'elle avait du mal a se lever, ils l'ont aidee, a leur maniere. Ils l'ont fait monter dans leur voiture et sont partis a plusieurs kilometres de la, la laissant en pleine foret, son enfant dans les bras.

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  • Author Jack Kerouac
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    They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful rucksack a-back, and asked:-"Where are you going?" which is precisely what they asked me a year later under Television floodlights in New York, "Where are you going?"-Just as you cant explain to the police, you cant explain to society "Looking for peace.

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  • Author Zoe Ferraris
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    I'm sorry about what I said about the police," she said. "I know your friend works for them.""You have reason," he said. "You don't know what they'll do, and when they become known for doing crazy things, you have no reason to trust them. That's their fault, not yours.

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  • Author Jonny Steinberg
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    A populace that has given its consent to be policed accepts, save for those rare and atypical moments when there is a genuine threat to the integrity of the underlying order, that in civil life, the police are uniquely entitled to use force, that when they arrive on the scene, everyone else relinquishes the entitlement to use force against them.

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