Police

(112 votes)   He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.

James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author

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(110 votes)   A functioning police state needs no police.

William S. Burroughs
1914-1997, American Writer

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(107 votes)   If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
1767-1835, German Statesman, Philologist

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(104 votes)   You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(94 votes)   At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness -- not crimes and scandals.

Soren Kierkegaard
1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer

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(90 votes)   The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor

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(85 votes)   We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York.

John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-, American Economist

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(82 votes)   There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes''

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(81 votes)   With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

Federico Garcia Lorca
1898-1936, Spanish Poet, Dramatist, Musician and Artist

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