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Possible Quotes by Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
- 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…
- No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing…
- The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the…
- Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — 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
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of… — Victoria Abril
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- There is no possible source of evil except good. — Saint Augustine
- I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible. — Kevin Bacon
- Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. — Pearl Bailey