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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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To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. – Hannah Arendt

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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. – Hannah Arendt

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. – Hannah Arendt

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