The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Power holders as well as seekers of power work to legitimate their chosen frames through rituals and symbols. We saw earlier that… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“Life in a police state magnifies the small mercies that it leaves alone until they become disproportionate to their significance; at the… — Patrick McGuinness Copy Share Image
It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom,… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Guadalupe Fuentes: --They're not paid to kill honest people, to shoot for no good reasons. Rubenia Fuentes: --Ah, my little girl, then… — Manlio Argueta Copy Share Image
“protectionI requested the figures on OSHA whistle-blower complaints made and the number actually upheld. OSHA refused to supply them. They also refused… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“For a period of several years in the mid-1990s the Chinese talked very openly, for a Communist police state, about what they… — Richard A. Clarke Copy Share Image
“5 Things To Do After a Shooting When the Police Arrive Point out the perpetrator to the police Tell the police you… — Gary Behr Copy Share Image
“Attempts to thwart or muzzle the media continued as well. At a conservative caucus meeting in Charlottetown in August 2007, journalists assembled… — Lawrence Martin Copy Share Image
Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion,… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“[I]t's become standard practice to erect a miniature police state around any globalization summit, and these rights free zones seem to prefigure… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The AK-47 was christened with blood not as a tool for liberation or to defend the Soviet Union from invaders. It made… — C.J. Chivers Copy Share Image
The reason I'm voting for Barack Obama is that it's either him or a police state - someone who's carrying on policies… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“If we are not careful the result might be an Orwellian police state that constantly monitors and controls not only all our… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It's very clear from what he [Osama ben Laden] said, what his lieutenants have said, that America is not even their main… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
![“[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State must have police power. She fails to take into account the inevitability that once you start with police power you're going to have a police State.” quote by Murray Bookchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6df/murray-bookchin-2587_accepting_ayn-rand-accepts-that-when-she-supports_2115369.jpg)
![“The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England! [...] The South African government is not a police state. It's easier on people than the United States government!” quote by L. Ron Hubbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/852/l-ron-hubbard-881_africa_the-problem-of-south-africa-is-different_2928768.jpg)
![“Attempts to thwart or muzzle the media continued as well. At a conservative caucus meeting in Charlottetown in August 2007, journalists assembled in the lobby of the hotel, as they usually do at such gatherings, to talk to caucus members as they passed by. The [Prime Minister's Office]…” quote by Lawrence Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/lawrence-martin-40750_canadian-politics_attempts-to-thwart-or-muzzle-the-media-c_2488258.jpg)
![“[I]t's become standard practice to erect a miniature police state around any globalization summit, and these rights free zones seem to prefigure what corporate globalization promises.” quote by Rebecca Solnit](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a1/rebecca-solnit-569_globalization_i-t-s-become-standard-practice-to-erect_1320694.png)
![“It's very clear from what he [Osama ben Laden] said, what his lieutenants have said, that America is not even their main enemy. We're simply in the way of what they want to do in their own world, which is to destroy police states and Israel.” quote by Michael Scheuer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b9/michael-scheuer-7471_america_it-s-very-clear-from-what-he-osama-ben-l_2531521.jpg)
