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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More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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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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Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
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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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There is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered.
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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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To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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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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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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The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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What makes men obey or tolerate real power and, on the other hand, hate people who have wealth without power, is the rational instinct that power has a certain function and is of some general use.
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The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
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Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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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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