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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very…
- The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy…
- The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
- Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as…
- That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory,…
- Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical,…
- Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest…
- Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political,…
- Promises are the uniquely human way of orderin The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — 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 most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster