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- I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they…
- I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told me that friends…
- Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt,…
- All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy…
- I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it…
- They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would…
- In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes…
- I shuddered to think how completely the insane were in the power of their keepers, and how one could weep and plead for release, and…
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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