For it is evident that those who regard the whole earth as their future territory will stress the organ of domestic violence and will rule conquered territory with police methods and personnel rather than with the army.
HANNAH ARENDTThe holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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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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To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven’t done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
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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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What are we “doing” when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow men, are together with no one but ourselves?
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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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The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.
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We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.
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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
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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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