It is because we know happiness that we want to be happy, and since nothing is more certain than our wanting to be happy, our notion of happiness guides us in determining the respective goods that then became objects of our desires.
HANNAH ARENDTLoving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
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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But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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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 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.
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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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Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
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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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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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The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
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Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.
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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot survive without it.
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