Country Quote by John Lanchester

A police state is a country run by criminals

— Robert Harris

We don't like to use the phrase "state security" in the United States because it reminds us of all the bad regimes. But it's…

— Edward Snowden

The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being…

— Vance Packard

Every country in the world has its own security system and its own security forces, its own police and its own army.

— Osama bin Laden

Another option, which I think is the thing that makes more sense, is this fact that the police are a reflection of the occupation…

— Oren Moverman

The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will.

— Vermin Supreme

“When only cops have guns, it's called a police state.”

— Claire Wolfe

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader,…

— Naomi Wolf

One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.

— L. Neil Smith

Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.

— Henry Giroux

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

— Orson Welles

We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want…

— Don Winslow