Security State Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations. — Edward Snowden
• A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine… — Michael Parenti
• To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends… — Michael Parenti
• 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 state… — Garry Wills
• 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 Terrorism,… — Ralph Metzner
• The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and… — Aldrich Ames
• The American national security state is totally bipartisan. My biggest problem is with the Democrats, like Feinstein and Pelosi, who are defending it because there… — Glenn Greenwald
• 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
• Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population… — Rick Perlstein

Who Wrote These Security State Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Security State Quotes as follows:

• 2 Security State Quotes by Michael Parenti
• 1 Security State Quote by Edward Snowden
• 1 Security State Quote by Garry Wills
• 1 Security State Quote by Ralph Metzner
• 1 Security State Quote by Aldrich Ames
• 1 Security State Quote by Glenn Greenwald
• 1 Security State Quote by Rebecca MacKinnon
• 1 Security State Quote by Rick Perlstein