Police State Quotes - Page 3

• Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

  Italo Calvino

  Police, Irony, States

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods.
  Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Mean, Greatness, Police

  "Declaration of Conscience‎" by Margaret Chase Smith, (p. 293), 1972.

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

  L. Neil Smith

  Police, Nazi, Authority

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• "Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.

  Bob Dylan

  Police, Bob, Salad

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.

  Phil Zimmermann

  Thinking, Technology, Government

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• The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than white workers do in England! [...] The South African government is not a police state. It's easier on people than the United States government!

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Thinking, White, Government

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• It seems to me that as economics drives politics and money markets set policies, what we have is an enormously powerful emergence of both a police state on the one hand and an incredible culture of cruelty on the other. All of the sudden, shared hopes are replaced by shared fears.

  Henry Giroux

  Powerful, Police, Culture

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state".

  Claire Wolfe

  Gun, Political, Police

  Claire Wolfe (2007). “Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do til the Revolution”, p.207, Paladin Press

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• The reason I'm voting for Barack Obama is that it's either him or a police state - someone who's carrying on policies that are clearly stated and directed at subverting liberty. He's definitely the lesser of two evils.

  Naomi Wolf

  Two, Evil, Voting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

  Naomi Wolf

  People, Police, Risk

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Rip, Believe

  "The capped crusader" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2003.

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• ...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 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society.

  Barry Goldwater

  Selfish, Police, Psychology

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• Venezuela has gone from being a democratic country 15 years ago to being totally not a democracy today. Usually that de-democratization doesn't take the form of a heavy handed police state.

  David Frum

  Country, Years, Police

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to have people in parade ground formations. You're not going to have a police state. You're not going to people with decorative armbands bullying people on the sidewalks. And the leaders won't stand at microphones for hours ranting at people. All of that is so 80 years ago.

  David Frum

  Bullying, Years, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• [Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State must have police power. She fails to take into account the inevitability that once you start with police power you're going to have a police State.

  Murray Bookchin

  Military, Support, Police

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• All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

  Malcolm X

  Moving, Past, Rights

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were uniformed police. The state was being surveilled the entire time.

  Trevor Noah

  People, Police, Snitch

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I can see that in certain political situations you have to use force to overthrow police states.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Political, Police, Use

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.

  David Horowitz

  America, Police, Allies

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• The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state. The second one is the promotion of literature and poetry, and the arts generally. So this is a state that's producing mass police archives - surveillance - and poetry. And in fact a lot of the archives are about what poets are writing or what they should be writing.

  Elliott Colla

  Art, Writing, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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