Police States Quotes
- 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
- Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. — Italo Calvino