Quotes by Arendt, Hannah

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends >>

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, th >>

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the >>

Quotations about Crime and Criminals

Successful crimes alone are justified. >>

One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into som >>

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to sta >>

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.

Arendt, Hannah