If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in a prison unless you try the door.
- Joe Bageant
A functioning police state needs no police.
- William S Burroughs
Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do
- Italo Calvino
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.
- Hunter S Thompson
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
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.
- Elia Kazan
My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
- C S Lewis
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
- Bruce Schneier
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
- Ahmet Necdet Sezner
I'm tired of living in a police state.
- L Neil Smith
You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along."
- John Shelby Spong
- Joe Bageant
A functioning police state needs no police.
- William S Burroughs
Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do
- Italo Calvino
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.
- Hunter S Thompson
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
To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.
- Elia Kazan
My symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern.
- C S Lewis
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
- Bruce Schneier
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
- Ahmet Necdet Sezner
I'm tired of living in a police state.
- L Neil Smith
You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you don't have any freedom left, or you're going to build a world that doesn't create terrorists - and that means a whole different way of "getting along."
- John Shelby Spong
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