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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
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
— Hannah Arendt
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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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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
— Hannah Arendt
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
— Hannah Arendt
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
— Hannah Arendt
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