Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
HANNAH ARENDTThe essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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Plurality is the condition of human action because we are all the same, that is, human, in such a way that nobody is ever the same as anyone else who ever lived, lives, or will live.
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The language of the mob was only the language of public opinion cleansed of hypocrisy and restraint.
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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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Justice demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.
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The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.
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To be sure, we are still aware that thinking calls not only for intelligence and profundity but above all for courage.
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The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
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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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To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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