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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its…
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a…
- 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…
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me…
- 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 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…
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude…
- 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…
- As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false…
- What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being…
- The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of…
- There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly…
- There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence…
- If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend…
- Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single…
- There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own…
- Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into…
- The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for…
- 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,…
- Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are…
- The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its…
- One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of…
- I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs…
- Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — 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
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle