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- No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
- Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its…
- But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and…
- The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value…
- But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian…
- I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there…
- All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.
- With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly…
- The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is…
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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
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- 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
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- 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