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- A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing,…
- I'm a great believer in the hereafter, in karma, in reincarnation. It does make sense. I believe that God is not just a law-giver, but…
- Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.
- When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
- We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions…
- Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the…
- There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a…
- Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is…
- Love is simple to understand if you haven't got a mind soft and full of holes. It's a crutch, that's all, and there isn't any…
- The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
- It all comes down to who does the dishes.
- Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
- Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.
- The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less…
- We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us…
- We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater…
- I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the…
- In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and…
- One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can…
- I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially…
- We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we…
- There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the…
- I guess all that's left is to love the fire.
- Dying cant be all that difficult, up to now everyone has managed to do it.
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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