Quotes About Gendarme

Le gouvernement n'est rien d'autre que le gendarme du Capital, l'épouvantable flic qui garde les coffres forts des vautours des banques, du commerce et de l'industrie. Pour le Capital il a du respect et lui est entièrement soumis; pour le peuple, il a les prisons, les casernes et le gibet.

Outside a seedy white Gendarmerie, an unshaven seedy off-white gendarme slumbered in a chair. 'He's pretending there isn't a war on,' said Mr Budden. I shouted 'Ai Meisu! le Gendarme? Où est la Guerre Mondiale Nombre Deux?' He pointed up the road. 'Avante siese mille kilo.' He grinned and fell back to sleep.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

even the gendarme who is posted at the distant door — a man, perhaps, who has never before compassed a smile, but is more accustomed to dealing out blows to the populace — summons up a kind of grin, even though the grin resembles the grimace of a man who is about to sneeze after inadvertently taking an over-large pinch of snuff.