#policemen

For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications. ↗

— Alvaro Uribe

#guns #more #need #planes #policemen

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#butchers #fear #irrational #life #policemen

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. ↗

— Huey Newton

#gun #hand #his #make #only

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#i #i always #played #policemen #sailor

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#lawyers #liberty #many #peace #policemen

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money! ↗

— John Dillinger

#farmers #firemen #i #just #like

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#freedom #gagged #living #more #nothing

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #cherish #citizens #death #groups

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. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#duties #equipped #even #police #policemen

Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck. ↗

— Leslie Ford

#detectives #policemen #love