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- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make…
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when…
- All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
- In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
- We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
- You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on…
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one…
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until…
- Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands…
- To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith
- It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings…
- All that we are not stares back at what we are.
- A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
- God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we…
- If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that…
- But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has…
- Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a…
- My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one…
- We are all here on earth to help others.
- The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in…
- If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives…
- All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a…
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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