Secret Police Quotes

No socialist system can be formed without some form of political police – a Gestapo

No one has murdered more communists than the Communist Soviet Union under Stalin

In Soviet Russia, party always finds you!

'The Secret Agent,' Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel about an anarchist plot to blow up the Royal Observatory at Greenwich - in fact, a scheme by a secret police agent to stir up a government backlash - has acquired a kind of cult status as the classic novel for the post-9/11 age.

The thing about the Russian secret police and the Soviet secret police is that one never leaves the secret police. Once a KGB man, always a KGB man.

Putin has demonstrated his fondness for the Cold War…. Once a KBG agent, always a KGB agent.

Only enemies of the Soviet Union can think of the KGB as some kind of secret police.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

The KGB is by far the world's largest, the Israeli probably the best, and the Iranian and the South Korean the deadliest.

I can deal with Stalin. He is honest, but smart as hell.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

My mom told me many times how I need to be careful living inside the regime. We didn't say 'the regime.' We didn't even say 'North Korea.'

In 1933, the Gestapo was founded to become - to be a secret police agency to keep tabs on political opposition and so forth. Brand-new as of April 1933.

In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests.

I cannot say that our country could have no secret police without becoming totalitarian, but I can say with great conviction that it cannot become totalitarian without a centralized national police.

From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system.

Believe it or not, some Western analysts in the 1930s insisted that Stalin was a 'moderate,' controlled by extremists like the secret police chief Nikolai Yezhov.

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

I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.

There is no such thing as a former KGB man.

Lenin had just reflected that the revolution would never happen in his lifetime when in February 1917, hungry crowds in Petrograd overthrew Nicholas II while the revolutionaries were abroad, exiled, or infiltrated by the secret police.

I wasn't the man. If you want someone to kill people, you had to find somebody else.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

Anywhere, anytime 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.

These ignorants who rule Egypt with force and with security agencies --- I call upon them to fear Allah, to return to Allah, and to reach out to this people, which attributes power and honor to you. Otherwise, the people will soon trample you underfoot, Allah willing.