The French slogan "police partout,
justice nulle part" means "police everywhere,
justice nowhere" and is part of a
quote from
Victor Hugo delivered in April 1851 to the National Assembly. This slogan is now widely used during demonstrations or
protest movements against the police. This phrase, more than a hundred years old, is still used today, in
France and in other Western countries, in particular by groups or movements generally linked to the far left who
fight against
police brutality.
A
police state describes a state where its
government institutions exercise an extreme level of control over civil
society and liberties characterized by the overbearing presence of civil authorities. A
police state typically exhibits elements of totalitarianism and authoritarian regimes. The best-known literary treatment of the
police state is
George Orwell's novel
1984, which describes Britain under a totalitarian régime that continuously invokes (and feeds) a perpetual
war as a pretext for subjecting
the people to mass surveillance, policing, and modification of language and the way people
think in order to make dissent not only swiftly punished, but also grammatically and logically
… Read more impossible to conceive and express. The state destroys not only the literal
freedom after action and thought meant by expressions like "
freedom of thought", but also literal
freedom of thought.
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