Lublin, Poland

State Security and Uniformed Services

Bezpieczeństwo państwa i służb mundurowych

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State Security and Uniformed Services at KUL

Language: Polish Studies in Polish
Subject area: security services
University website: www.kul.pl/kul,21.html

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Security
Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, and any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by its environment.
State
In the mean time, what is the point of repeating the old tale as to what the state is becoming? Once the sour critical analysis of sometime ago (Herbert Marcuse: One-Dimensional Man), the dark negative utopias (Aldous Huxley, George Orwell) and the protest cries (May 68) are forgotten, and with a near lack of the slightest sense of resistance in civil society, the cobweb of power spins peacefully over our heads, all over the place. Even the dressing room.
Joxe Azurmendi, Demokratak eta biolentoak, (1997), p. 101.
State
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917), Ch. 5
Security
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, president of Columbia University, speech to luncheon clubs, Galveston, Texas, December 8, 1949.—The New York Times, December 9, 1949, p. 23.
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