Political Police

Famous quotes containing the words political and/or police:

“Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened to them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”
—A. Alvarez (b. 1929)