Ice T
Rapper, Actor
"If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut."
Cop quotes
Cop
137 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ralph Ellison
Novelist, Essayist
"I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers."
Tupac Shakur
Rapper, Actor, Activist
"Drop them or let them drop you. I chose droppin' that cop."
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything."
Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"Always talk to God, never listen to the cops."
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"They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me."
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"God damn, it's a brand new payback From the straight gangsta mack in straight gangsta black How many motherfuckers gotta pay Went to the shelf and dusted off the AK Caps gotta get peeled Cause "The Nigga Ya Love to hate" still can "Kill at Will""
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"All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited."
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"Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that."
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"Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem."
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"Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it."
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"I'd defend myself. But I don't go around shoving people around; that's not me at all - that's for a cop. I'm not into that type of behavior at all."
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"Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there."
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"I'm not excusing the illegal act. I am here illegally. I'm here illegally, without authorization. That's a fact. That's nothing you can call the Orwellian cops about. But I am a human being, so therefore I am not illegal. That's also a fact."
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"When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away."
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"When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work."
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"Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now."
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"If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with."
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"I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them."
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"No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges."
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"I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies."
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"A song ain't why people kill cops."
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"I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line."
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"There's a point where a cop pulls you out of that car and starts abusing you or beating on you and at that moment he is no longer within the law."
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"I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them."
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