Top 571 Cops And Robbers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

American cops didn't create that atmosphere, they're the ones though who have to live with it on a daily basis. These are generalisations; you can't make generalisations about hundreds of thousands of people. The New York Police Department, for instance, has 38,000 police officers in it. But most cops, when I talk to them, desperately care about the victims of gun violence. They see it, they experience it.

Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals.

The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last.

I don't hang out with cops.

I'm not the guy to call the cops.

I see where they are going to be more strict with these robbers; when they catch 'em from now on, they're going to publish their names.

You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it

The problem is not cop killers...it's killer cops.

There are cops who be racially profiling.

L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.

I respect and admire what cops do.

And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.

I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. All of the rest of us, we have smears and stains, but they're helpless. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens. Other than that, I represented everybody who came by.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.

I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all.

The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

I always wondered, you know I watch "Cops" all the time - why doesn't a drug dealer design a trap door under their car? 'Cause cops don't have cameras under the cars, they get you for throwing stuff out the window! If you got a trap door under your car, boom! You would run over it. It would be genius.

When we became sedentary, lived indoors, and started to raise livestock, we began to see wolves not as occasional fur-bearers or fellow hunters but as robbers.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

I'm scared if the cops pull me over.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!

Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need for relationships.

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

A song ain't why people kill cops.

The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.

I've had negative experiences with cops. I've had positive experiences with cops.

You have plenty of liberals out there who are all for the cops raiding their political enemies, they're all for the cops doing whatever they have to do to get whatever goods they want on their political enemies. And yet the Patriot Act comes, oh, you can't do it, it's an invasion of privacy. And yet in some cases they don't care about other people's privacy. Privacy is irrelevant to them depending on what the target is.

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.'' "No time. I have enough trouble keeping you in line.

Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

I throw raps that attack like the Japs on Pearl Harbor. MC's be out like bank robbers, Fleeing the scene, to be a sole survivor; DJ...the getaway driver.

So the story goes, so I'm told The people he knew were Less than golden hearted Gamblers and robbers Drinkers and jokers, all soul searchers Like you and me

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.

Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

The secret to writing is just to write. Write every day. Never stop writing. Write on every surface you see; write on people on the street. When the cops come to arrest you, write on the cops. Write on the police car. Write on the judge. I'm in jail forever now, and the prison cell walls are completely covered with my writing, and I keep writing on the writing I wrote. That's my method.

Adverbs and cops always come in pairs.

I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.

I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.