77 Quotes About Police-state


  • Author Ioan Petru Culianu
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    In any case, the magician State—unless it involved vulgar conjurers—is vastly preferable to the police State, to the State which, in order to defend its own out-of-date 'culture,' does not hesitate to repress all liberties and the illusion of liberties, changing itself into a prison where all hope is lost.

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  • Author Dale Carpenter
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    Start with the observation that American law is not designed to catch and punish every instance of illegal conduct. Nothing short of a totalitarian state could do that. It is designed to prosecute persons when there is a reasonable basis for believing they have committed a crime, and then to convict them when there is no reasonable doubt that they are guilty.

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