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- The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us…
- Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even…
- We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for…
- The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the…
- It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do…
- This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion. It is not…
- All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:... these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow's who have escaped from Plato's…
- As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility,…
- The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic,…
- We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated,…
- If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.…
- the neighborhood is nothing but a protective zone- remodeling, disinfection, a snobbish and hygenic design- but above all in a figurative sense: it is a…
- All societies end up wearing masks.
- Smile and others will smile back. Smile to show how transparent, how candid you are. Smile if you have nothing to say. Most of all,…
- A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her…
- The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle