“You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.”
Joe Strummer (1952–2002) British musician, singer, actor and songwriter
The Clash, "Know Your Rights", Combat Rock (1982).
Lyrics
Event hosted by Veja on 27 November 2017. 'Policial que não mata não é policial', diz Bolsonaro https://politica.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,policial-que-nao-mata-nao-e-policial-diz-bolsonaro,70002098866. Estadão (27 November 2017).
“You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.”
Joe Strummer (1952–2002) British musician, singer, actor and songwriter
The Clash, "Know Your Rights", Combat Rock (1982).
Lyrics
“Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.”
P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
Richard J. Daley (1902–1976) American politician
[A Handbook for Psychological Fitness-for-Duty Evaluations in Law Enforcement, Cary D., Rostow, Robert D. Davis, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0789023962, 18]
Said during the civil disorders associated with the Democratic National Convention in 1968.
“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.”
Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker
“Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.”
W. Somerset Maugham book Of Human Bondage
Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 53
“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.”
Charlie Chaplin book My Autobiography
Source: My Autobiography (1964), Ch. 10
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941) American Supreme Court Justice
Other People's Money—and How Bankers Use It (1914).
Extra-judicial writings
Context: 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.