Quotes of Constable - somelinesforyou

“ We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded. ”

- Charles Kingsley

“ 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

“ I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways. ”

- Martin Scorsese

“ Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list — the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation. ”

- Karl Marx

“ Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a "taxing-machine;" to the contented, a "machine for securing property… ”

- Thomas Carlyle
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