Initial Object

Famous quotes containing the words initial and/or object:

    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 (1906–1975)

    I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)