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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.
Hannah Arendt
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
Hannah Arendt
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Hannah Arendt
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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All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power; they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.
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It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
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Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs — statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.
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As citizens, we must prevent wrong-doing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong-sufferer, and spectator, is at stake; the City has been wronged.
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A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its quality of rising into sight from some darker ground which must remain hidden if it is not to lose its depth in a very real, non-subjective sense.
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The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
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There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.
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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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Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.
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Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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Even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circ*mstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth.
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
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The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.
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It was mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence, wherein the mind appears to play only with itself, that turned out to be the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe that are concealed by appearances.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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Of all things of thought, poetry is the closest to thought, and a poem is less a thing than any other work of art.
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It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of 'destiny,' you not only change its 'natural laws' but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.
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Hannah Arendt
Born: October 14, 1906
Died: December 4, 1975 (aged 69)
Bio: Johanna "Hannah" Arendt was a German-born American political theorist.
Known for:
- Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
- The Human Condition (1958)
- The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
- Between Past and Future (1961)
- On Violence (1970)
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