Initial Master Key

Famous quotes containing the words initial, master and/or key:

“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)

“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
—Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)

“All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)