77 Quotes About Police-state
- Author Kristian Williams
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American capitalism needs a steady supply of immigrant labor, but it needs it cheap. By criminalizing the workers, the state helps to keep them uncertain, uneasy, disorganized, and docile. The attack on immigrants, therefore, is both “[p]olitically…an organic expression of nativist hostility and a very useful, rational system of elite-inspired class control”—“the primary product” of which “is… fear.
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- Author George Lamming
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When the poor man loose control of the best in himself... it ain't his fault at all, it is the fault of people who go 'round making poppits of other poor people.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Police internal affairs is amongst the most corrupt departments that you will find in governments.
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- Author Hannah Arendt
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For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence and will rule conquered territory with police methods and personnel rather than with the army.
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- Author James Duane
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If a police officer encounters you in one of those moments, he or she has every right to ask you two simple questions. Memorize these two questions so you will not be tempted to answer any others:Who are you?What are you doing right here, right now?If you are ever approached by a police officer with those two questions, and your God-given common sense tells you that the officer is being reasonable in asking for an explanation, don’t be a jerk.
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- Author Thor Benson
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Americans don't care about privacy, and the people running the country couldn't be happier.
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- Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Should we wrap it all up and simply say that they arrested the innocent? But we omitted saying that the very concept of guilt had been repealed by the proletarian revolution and, at the beginning of the thirties, was defined as rightist opportunism! So we can't even discuss these out-of-date concepts, guilt and innocence.
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- Author Jeremy Grantham
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The fall of moral civilization has always been brought about by those who were "just doing their jobs".
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- Author Angela Y. Davis
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Imprisonment is increasingly used as a strategy of deflection of the underlying social problems—racism, poverty, unemployment, lack of education, and so on.
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