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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Written by
Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Hannah Arendt
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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Hannah Arendt
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
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Hannah Arendt
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 ambitious.
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Hannah Arendt
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
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Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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Hannah Arendt
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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Hannah Arendt
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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Hannah Arendt
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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Hannah Arendt
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Hannah Arendt
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 of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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Hannah Arendt
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
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Hannah Arendt
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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Hannah Arendt
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
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Hannah Arendt
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 or constitute a proof for its existence.
Written by
Hannah Arendt
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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Hannah Arendt
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 existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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Hannah Arendt
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
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Hannah Arendt
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
Written by
Hannah Arendt
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
Written by
Hannah Arendt
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Written by
Hannah Arendt
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Written by
Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
Written by
Hannah Arendt
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Hannah Arendt
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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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 outstanding event of the last decade.
Written by
Hannah Arendt
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 own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Written by
Hannah Arendt
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