Initial State

Famous quotes containing the words initial and/or state:

“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)

“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)