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- Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for…
- If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task…
- All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the…
- Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and…
- The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall…
- The Forgotten Man... delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... but he…
- There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
- The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that…
- We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A…
- Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.
- The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
- All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win the…
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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