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- I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty…
- I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank…
- It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot…
- I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my…
- All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are…
- In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us…
- When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it…
- It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world…
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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