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- The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse.…
- The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are…
- The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and…
- Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget any…
- As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the…
- Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.
- If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.
- There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its…
- My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country…
- The question is...whether we shall, by whatever means, succeed in reconstituting the natural world as the true terrain of politics, rehabilitating the personal experience of…
- Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly,…
- There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for…
- The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so…
- None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise…
- All human suffering concerns each human being
- The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we…
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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