To be sure, we are still aware that thinking calls not only for intelligence and profundity but above all for courage.
HANNAH ARENDTA life without thinking is quite possible; it then fails to develop its own essence – it is not merely meaningless; it is not fully alive. Unthinking men are like sleepwalkers
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
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Evil, as she saw it, need not be committed only by demonic monsters but—with disastrous effect—by morons and imbeciles as well, especially if, as we see in our own day, their deeds are sanctioned by religious authority.
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Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
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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.
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Tools and instruments which can ease the effort of labor considerably are themselves not a product of labor but of work; they do not belong in the process of consumption but are part and parcel of the world of use objects.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Men in plural, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
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The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one’s own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.
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There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.
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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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Social and economic hatred, on the other hand, reinforced the political argument with that driving violence which up to then it had lacked completely.
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In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.
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