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Where all, or almost all, are guilty, nobody is.
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics...
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Every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.
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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
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Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning...
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To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous...
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The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right.
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Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
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Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
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It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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While violence can destroy power, it can never become a substitute for it.
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Thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.
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The disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.
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The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.
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The rule of Nobody... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfection.
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It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.
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With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.
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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
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The business of thinking... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.
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But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing
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The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.
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The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
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If we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Hannah Arendt
Born:
October 14, 1906
Died:
December 4, 1975
(aged 69)
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