Once the people are terrorized, you can force a police state on them. — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state. — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“Life in a police state is pretty good—if you are the state police.” Though” — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
Terrorists are overjoyed when we shut down our freedoms and turn ourselves into a police state and when we retaliate, swatting the… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't… — David Frum Copy Share Image
There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
A source of embarrassment for Libyans, Gadhafi has never been a joke: disappearances, a police state, zero freedom of expression, and poverty… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
“Start with the observation that American law is not designed to catch and punish every instance of illegal conduct. Nothing short of… — Dale Carpenter Copy Share Image
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Spy planes, drone aircraft, satellites with cameras that can see from three hundred miles what you can see from a hundred feet.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The Democratic Party would like to be re-elected so that they can continue to uphold almost no Occupational Safety & Health Administration… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“That concentration camps were ultimately provided for the same groups in all countries, even though there were considerable differences in the treatment… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“I make certain remarks here and there against the elephantine and unproductive organization known as the EU. I mean them. If ever… — Nicholas Storey Copy Share Image
“The air, soil and water cumulatively degrade; the climates and oceans destabilize; species become extinct at a spasm rate across continents; pollution… — John McMurtry Copy Share Image
“The guardsmen dragged him to the Detour; the mules they had ridden were there. The corpse was buried near here or the… — Manlio Argueta Copy Share Image
“But from the Parthenon and the Timaeus a specious logic leads to the tyranny which, in the Republic, is held up as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As the British Empire fell, the Afrikaner rose up to claim South Africa as his rightful inheritance. To maintain power in the… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image