police state

Noun

Meaning

a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)

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A functioning police state needs no police. William S. Burroughs

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. Bruce Schneier

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

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious. Robert A. Heinlein

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

That's how a police state works - everyone thinks everyone else is the police. Trevor Noah

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