Tao Te Ching

“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 CE
Fearless researcher into the darker reaches of the human psyche
from Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)