Police State Quotes - Page 2

• There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

  Elia Kazan

  Organization, Police, Doubt

  Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

  Henry Giroux

  Police, Shadow, Looks

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.

  Naomi Wolf

  Thinking, People, Police

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

  Peter Shilton

  Soccer, Way, Censorship

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• Either the USSR was not the country of socialism, in which case socialism didn't exist anywhere and doubtless, wasn't possible: or else, socialism was that, this abominable monster, this police state, the power of beasts of prey.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Country, Police, Monsters

  "Les Temps modernes". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, p. 184, 1961.

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• Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Police, Essentials

  "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change". Book by Al Gore, 2013.

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• 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. Their homes can be invaded.

  Vance Packard

  Home, Police, Citizens

  Anne Edwards, David G. McCullough, Vance Oakley Packard, Andrew Sinclair, Daphne Du Maurier (1978). “Vivien Leigh: a biography”

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• 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 subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.

  Peter Watts

  Reality, Rose, Police

  Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.48, Macmillan

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• 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 complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington's huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Life, Country, Mass Destruction

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• As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by fighting a war that should never have been started and can be won, if at all, only by converting the United States into a police state.

  Milton Friedman

  War, Home, Fighting

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• 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 develop its capacity for autocratic control. Thus, the "Free World" increasingly resembles a dreary string of heartless police states.

  Michael Parenti

  Heartless, Police, World

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

  Orson Welles

  Jobs, Police, Liberty

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• Young people increasingly have become subject to an oppressive disciplinary machine that teaches them to define citizenship through the exchange practices of the market and to follow orders and toe the line in the face of oppressive forms of authority. They are caught in a society in which almost every aspect of their lives is shaped by the dual forces of the market and a growing police state.

  Henry Giroux

  Order, Practice, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to just the young protesters occupying a number of American cities, but also the threat it poses to democracy itself. This threat is being exacerbated as a result of the merging of a war-like mentality and neoliberal mode of discipline and education in which it becomes difficult to reclaim the language of obligation, social responsibility and civic engagement.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Responsibility, Cities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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

  Naomi Wolf

  Army, Leader, Police

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's very clear from what he [Osama ben Laden] said, what his lieutenants have said, that America is not even their main enemy. We're simply in the way of what they want to do in their own world, which is to destroy police states and Israel.

  Michael Scheuer

  Israel, America, Police

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.

  Russell Simmons

  Issues, Long, Police

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Country, School, Men

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and 6 million dollars to put one negro in the University of Mississippi. That's a police action, police state action.

  Malcolm X

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  War, Ideas, Police

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• The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in this absurd notion. Many were intimidated into voting for police state legislation, because they lacked the intestinal fortitude to call police state legislation by its own name. The legislation that has been passed during the Bush regime is far more dangerous to Americans than Muslim terrorists.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Giving Up, Names, Rights

  "Will the Democrats Become Part of the Problem?". www.informationclearinghouse.info. November 9, 2006.

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• 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 America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.

  Anthony Gregory

  Mean, Kissing, Gay

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• laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.

  Margaret Mead

  Laughter, Spring, Pride

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• We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the police state.

  Marilyn Manson

  Police, Atheism, Christianity

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• There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state.

  Elliott Colla

  People, Achievement, Police

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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