The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

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Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 2. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.