Top 238 Policeman Quotes & Sayings

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.

Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

God, I've played a lot of policeman.

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.

The confrontation was not created by the police; the confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight, once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

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

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

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

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

Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.

In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.

I am my own policeman.

Maybe I have some god-given gift to act as a policeman.

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

As a child in awe of my policeman father, I wanted to grow up to be a cop.

For men there are costumes like fireman, policeman and vampire. For women there are costumes like slutty fireman, slutty policeman and slutty vampire.

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.

The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.

America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.

I was a policeman for 18 years.

A policeman's lot is not a happy one

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

I really don't think there's such a thing as an ex-policeman.

One policeman may be a friend, but two are the Law.

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me.

I'm a policeman on television but an absolute wuss in real life.

I would prefer the [USA] government to be the policeman and not the businessman.

I was never a wet-eyed, passionate writer; I was always a policeman.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

The U.S. cannot be the policeman of the world. When we tried that in Vietnam, they beat us up.

Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder.

I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.

You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

When I was a kid, a policeman was someone you looked up to and respected.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.

No, I wouldn't like to be a policeman.

Whenever I have that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

Love, and love as deeply as possible. And if love itself becomes the marriage, that is another thing, altogether different. If love itself becomes such an intimacy that it is unbreakable, that is another thing, that is not a legal sanction. Legal sanctions are needed only because you are afraid. You know that your love is not enough; you need the legal support for it. You know perfectly well that you can escape or the woman can escape, hence you need the policeman to keep you together. But this is ugly, to need a policeman to keep you together. That's what marriage is!

You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.

We cannot continue to be a policeman for the rest of the world.

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.

My old fella was a policeman; he was a chief inspector of the anti-terrorism squad.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Remember, only a policeman is allowed to express himself on an expressway.