#policeman

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#commended #diseases #efficient #electric #electric light

The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder. ↗

— Richard J. Daley

#disorder #policeman #preserve

You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation. ↗

— Alex Cox

#motorcycle #never #out #policeman #reservation

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#broke #burglar #caught #criminal #got

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#i #make #never #policeman #seen

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#girl #i #make #need #park

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#appointed #beating #been #come #heads

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. ↗

— Will Rogers

#company #goods #hand #holding #policeman

So there's no such thing as one too many this, one too many that. I remember, you're reminding me of early in my career, somebody said to me: why are you taking so many roles as a policeman. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#early #i #i remember #many #me

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him. ↗

— John Thaw

#being #description #detective #good #him