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- If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one,…
- Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered…
- The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the…
- We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.
- The civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom…
- The poor folks hate the rich folks, and the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, it's…
- All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder. For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When…
- On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time to cheat him all the more The other three hundred…
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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