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. ✨ Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil epilogue (1963)
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. ✨ Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil epilogue (1963)

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