This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah ArendtNo punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
Hannah ArendtThe extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
Hannah ArendtOur Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.
Hannah Arendt