Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, its really like magic because you transform reality for people. – Louis C. K.
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