Police State Quotes
- A functioning police state needs no police. — William S. Burroughs
- Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which… — Harry S. Truman
- ...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an… — Barry Goldwater
- The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined.… — Vance Packard
- Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection must… — Michael Parenti
- Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much… — Peter Watts
- A policemans job is only easy in a police state. — Charlton Heston
- Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most… — Paul Craig Roberts
- It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. — Bruce Schneier
- Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean… — Anthony Gregory
- Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the… — Hakim Bey
- Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society. — Ahmet Necdet Sezer
- Step by step we see democracy being uprooted like an unwanted weed and the preparation for fascism, for a police state in America. The Congress… — Stan Moore
- Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are… — Hunter S. Thompson
- In a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression. — Philip Schuyler
- A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow. — John F. Kennedy
- I'm tired of living in a police state. — L. Neil Smith
- Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy. — Orson Welles
- Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus… — Al Gore
- To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter… — Elia Kazan