Being Quote by Asma Jahangir

“Thirdly, Casey committed CIA support to a long-standing ISI initiative to recruit radical Muslims from around the world to come to Pakistan and fight…

— Ahmed Rashid

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

— Taylor Caldwell

The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.

— Edward Snowden

“We must pose the familiar question about how far our civil liberties have been eroded by the national security state… Somehow it is always…

— Niall Ferguson

The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety…

— Frederick Douglass

A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and…

— Michael Parenti

Just as Hitler used the Reichstag burning, the U.S. government now uses the so-called two wars, the War on Drugs and the War on…

— Ralph Metzner

As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought…

— Aldrich Ames

Easy spying is supposed to nab bad guys, but what happens when the small cabal of desperate men who head the security state see…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security…

— Garry Wills

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of…

— Harry Stack Sullivan