Initial Conditions

Famous quotes containing the words initial and/or conditions:

    “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 can’t say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)