Frank Serpico Quotes

#1. Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources

Mathis Wackernagel

#2. Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

Frank Serpico

#3. it was as if that long-healed wound was raw again; all the complex memories crowded once more to the forefront of her mind. An old despair should not feel so new, but a new despair could haul an old one out of hiding.

Sharon Shinn

#4. The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Frank Serpico

#5. The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.

Frank Serpico

#6. You can tell about people by their absences. By the shape of the emptiness they leave behind.

Elaine Clark McCarthy

#7. Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

Frank Serpico

#8. The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.

Richard Paul Evans

#9. I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

Frank Serpico

#10. I'm retarded - I mean I'm retired.

Frank Serpico

#11. It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

Cathy Rigby

#12. The whole f**king system is corrupt.

Frank Serpico

#13. There was a point in time where I was doing movies to be able to afford to live in a certain way.

Ashton Kutcher

#14. My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.

Frank Serpico

#15. I choose to remind myself that you have not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. I

Christine Caine

#16. You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

W. Somerset Maugham

#17. The reality is that we do not wash our own laundry - it just gets dirtier.

Frank Serpico

#18. For the Staffel: attack on principle in groups of four or six. When the fight breaks up into a series of single combats, take care that several do not go for one opponent.

Oswald Boelcke

#19. plate stacked high with chocolate waffles (slutty pancakes, he called them).

Eric Arvin

#20. I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#21. My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

Quentin Crisp

#22. An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

Frank Serpico

#23. I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.'

Frank Serpico