Quote by Hannah Arendt
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to pre

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt

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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. – Hannah Arendt

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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. – Hannah Arendt

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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. – Hannah Arendt

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A true king is neither husband nor father he considers his throne and nothing else. – Pierre Corneille

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It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other peoples lives. – Clint Eastwood

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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. – Edmund Burke

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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy. – Daniel Webster

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