“Ever since there was a world there has been a law for all societies that a corps specializing in violence, if not closely watched and controlled, burgeons in cruelty and becomes, like a monster free from restraint, the persecutor and sometimes the destroyer of what it is supposed to preserve.”

“Ever since there was a world there has been a law for all societies that a corps specializing in violence, if not closely watched and controlled, burgeons in cruelty and becomes, like a monster free from restraint, the persecutor and sometimes the destroyer of what it is supposed to preserve.”

— Claude Bourdet