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One Quotes by Ruth Benedict
- In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have…
- The peoples of the earth are one family.
- The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and…
- I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
- We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior,…
- In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people one does not…
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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