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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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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Tyranny
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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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Death
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. – Hannah Arendt

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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. – Bertrand Russell

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People didnt wasnt the Peoples party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready. – Imran Khan

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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. – Dan Brown

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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creations braggart lords. – John Muir

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Self-preservation is the first law of nature. – Samuel Butler

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The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new. – Norman O. Brown

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How true Daddys words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a persons character lies in their own hands. – Anne Frank

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Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that its much more partisan and much more divided. – Leon Panetta

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