“A functioning police state needs no police.”
From the chapter entitled "Benway", p. 31
Naked Lunch (1959)
“America is a fucking police state.”
As quoted in New Musical Express (12 November 1991)<sup> http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/nme-meets-nirvana-in-1991-archive-feature</sup>
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