Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
HANNAH ARENDTThe last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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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.
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Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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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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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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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.
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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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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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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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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 most radical and the only secure form of possession is destruction, for only what we have destroyed is safely and forever ours.
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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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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