Half of politics is “image-making”, the other half is the art of making people believe the image.
HANNAH ARENDTEvil comes from a failure to think.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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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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We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.
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There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
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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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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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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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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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When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Evil comes from a failure to think.
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Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.
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To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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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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