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May Quotes by Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom…
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of…
- Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own…
- Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be…
- We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the…
- Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning…
- It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling…
- What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will…
- Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong