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One Quotes by Wallace Shawn
- If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a…
- Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?
- I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later.…
- I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually…
- I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.
- From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played…
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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