Secret Police Quotes

• The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

  George Orwell

  Average, Class, Soul

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

  Richard Perle

  Military, Police, Secret

  Debate with Howard Dean at Pacific University, February 17, 2005.

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• Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Gun, Rights

  "El camino de Abbey". Libro de Edward Abbey, 1979.

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• No puedo decir que nuestro país no pueda tener una policía secreta sin volverse totalitario, pero puedo decir con gran convicción que no puede volverse totalitario sin una policía nacional centralizada.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Country, Government, Police

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• The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

  John Boyd Orr

  Real, Evil, Police

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• Todo Estado-nación tiende a lo imperial, de eso se trata. A través de bancos, ejércitos, policía secreta, propaganda, tribunales y cárceles, tratados, impuestos, leyes y órdenes, mitos de obediencia civil, suposiciones de virtud cívica en la cúspide.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Army, Order, Law

  Daniel Berrigan (2009). “The Nightmare of God: The Book of Revelation”, p.22, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• En cualquier lugar, en cualquier momento en que se dé a la gente corriente la oportunidad de elegir, la elección es la misma: libertad, no tiranía; democracia, no dictadura; Estado de Derecho, no gobierno de la policía secreta.

  Tony Blair

  Law, People, Choices

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, pronunciado el 17 th Of July de 2003, Sesión Conjunta del Congreso, Washington, D.C.

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• Quiero hacer una película sobre la policía secreta rusa: el GOP.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Police

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• Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.

  Tony Blair

  Gun, Law, Western Values

  Address to Congress Accepting Congressional Gold Medal, pronunciado el 17 th Of July de 2003, Sesión Conjunta del Congreso, Washington, D.C.

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• One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

  James Buchan

  Country, Police, Historical

  "Khomeini's Ghost" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2009.

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• The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

  George W. Bush

  Wall, Heart, Law

  Discurso ante la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas, pronunciado el 21 de septiembre de 2004, New York, NY

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• Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons). In the century of Hitler and Stalin, this seems ingenuous.

  Carl Sagan

  Revenge, Military, War

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• Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Men, Evil

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.64, RosettaBooks

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• Todo Estado-nación tiende a lo imperial, de eso se trata. A través de bancos, ejércitos, policía secreta, propaganda, tribunales y cárceles, tratados, impuestos, leyes y órdenes, mitos de obediencia civil, suposiciones de virtud cívica en la cúspide. Sin embargo, hay que decir de la izquierda política que esperamos algo mejor. Y con razón. Confiamos más en aquellos que muestran cierta compasión, que denuncian los horribles acuerdos sociales que hacen inevitable la guerra y omnipresente el deseo humano; que fomentan el egoísmo corporativo, complacen los apetitos y el desorden, malgastan la tierra.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Guerra, Ejército, Compasión

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Y si nuestro objetivo como ciudadanos morales es hacer del mundo un lugar mejor, entonces sólo hay una opción: bombear todo el petróleo que podamos de Fort McMurray. Bombear y vaporizar y excavar y perforar y sacar ese petróleo de la arena de todas y cada una de las maneras que podamos. Cada gota de petróleo de Alberta es una gota menos de alguna teocracia fascista, o de algún brutal señor de la guerra; un céntimo menos en las arcas de la policía secreta rusa y de los asesinos de Al Qaeda.

  Ezra Levant

  Petróleo, Rusia, Objetivo

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• "Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."

  Janet Morris

  God, Drinking, Blue

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• Some tell me Preach the pure gospel! This reminds me that the Communist secret police also told me to preach Christ, but not to mention communism. Is it really so, that those who are for what is called a pure gospel are inspired by the same spirit as those of the Communist secret police?

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Police, Secret, Spirit

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.74, David C Cook

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• Poland didn't experience a groundbreaking moment in 1989. We didn't storm the secret police building. The squads of secret police, with all their political baggage, remained unscathed.

  Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

  Squad, Political, Police

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Today anyone on the Internet can find out more about what you read, think, and earn than the secret police of Stalin or Hitler could have learned.

  Robert Scheer

  Thinking, Police, Secret

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• We're historians and above all want to write about what was. Our book doesn't deal with legacies. It also wasn't our goal to destroy a legend. We consider Walesa to be a national symbol. He led Solidarity and remains an icon. But he also worked with the secret police under the name Bolek. The truth isn't always simply black and white.

  Slawomir Cenckiewicz

  Book, Writing, Black And White

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• We know the secret police's methods, and the way the archive and registry were run - that's how we know. We've also found evidence from the Bolek file cited in other files.

  Slawomir Cenckiewicz

  Running, Police, Secret

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with love, a writer sly enough to give the slip to her secret police, the ones who know her so well, the ones with the power to accuse and condemn in the blink of an eye. It's all right that she doesn't know what she's thinking until she writes it, as if the words already exist somewhere and draw her to them. She may not know how she got there, but she knows when she's arrived.

  Sy Safransky

  Writing, Heart, Eye

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• In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also be heard, but it is only to cover the talk about the gospel and the underground work so that neighbors may not overhear it and inform the secret police. How underground Christians rejoice on those rare occasions when they meet a serious Christian from the West!

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Home, Police

  Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.96, David C Cook

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• The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests of the Soviet Union - and thereby of Joseph Stalin, the butcher of millions. It made political sense for the International Brigade to recruit non-communists - useful fools was what Lenin had called such people in an earlier manipulation of gullible decency - but of course most were then vetted by the NKVD, the Soviet Union's secret police.

  Kevin Myers

  War, People, Political

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