No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent…

Hannah Arendt
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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 (2006). Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, p.238, Penguin
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