For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us – the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identified with man’s freedom. ‘That a beginning be made man was created’ said Augustine. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.
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Evil comes from a failure to think.
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Compared with the mobilization of all opponents to the government as such, the capturing of lower middle-class votes was a temporary phenomenon.
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Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
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Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be or might have been.
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Colonization took place in America and Australia, the two continents that, without a culture and a history of their own, had fallen into the hands of Europeans.
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It is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.
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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena—homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.
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A 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
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Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.
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The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.
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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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