765 Quotes About Police

  • Author Jonny Steinberg
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    The police and the vulnerable are natural allies. That they are so is counterintuitive and strange, for they also loathe one another.

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  • Author Jonny Steinberg
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    Most of the men thrown into the back of the van that night were drunk, but none was in public: each was in his own home. And yet not one of them questioned the legality of his arrest. After nearly a dace of democracy, each assumed that the cops had every right to drag him out of his home and throw him in prison.

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  • Author Viktor Pelevin
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    The Eskimos have thirty words for describing different kinds of snow, and modern Russian has about the same number of expressions to describe giving a bribe to a state official.

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  • Author Russell Brand
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    The police force in America pledge to “protect and serve.” That would actually be dandy if it were happening. Bill Hicks used to joke that he’d like to hijack a typically unpunctual plane and force it to go to its scheduled destination on time.

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  • Author Jonathan Safran Foer
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    If you want to know who protects you from the people that take without asking, it is the police. If you want to know who protects you from the police, it is the people who take without asking. And very often they are the same people.

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  • Author Ben Aaronovitch
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    If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

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