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The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4) QUOTES

The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4) QUOTES

1 " This is a foul thing that shouldn’t be allowed to exist. No firearms should exist. The fact that they are still made and that all sorts of people have them lying about in drawers or carry them around in the street just shows that the whole system is perverted and crazy. Some bastard makes a fat profit by making and selling arms, just the way other people make a fat profit on factories that make narcotics and deadly pills. Do you get it? "

― Maj Sjöwall , The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)

2 " Mass murders seem to be an American "

― Maj Sjöwall , The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)

3 " The consumer society and its harassed citizens had other things to think of. Although it was a month to Christmas, the advertising orgy had begun and the buying hysteria spread as swiftly and ruthlessly as the Black Death along the festooned shopping streets. The epidemic swept all before it and there was no escape. It ate its way into homes and apartments, poisoning and braking down everything and everyone in its path.

Children were already howling from exhaustion and fathers of families were plunged into debt until their next vacation. The gigantic legalized confidence trick claimed victims everywhere. The hospitals had a boom in cardiac infractions, nervous breakdowns, and burst stomach ulcers.

The police stations downtown had frequent visits from the outriders of the great family festival, in the shape of Santa Clauses who were dragged blind drunk out of doorways and public urinals. . .two exhausted patrolmen dropped a drunken Father Christmas in the gutter when they tried to get him into a taxi. "

― Maj Sjöwall , The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)

4 " His name was apparently Charles Penrose and the record was called The Adventures of the Laughing Policeman. "

― Maj Sjöwall , The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)

5 " TERRORISTS "

― Maj Sjöwall , The Laughing Policeman (Martin Beck, #4)