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" Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. "
Hannah Arendt
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" War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. "
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" It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. "
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" Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. "
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" The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. "
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" 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. "
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" The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. "
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World
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" To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. "
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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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" This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. "
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Expect
Best
" There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. "
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Thinking
Itself
" By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. "
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Beauty
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" Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. "
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Use
Words
Equal
" Where 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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Discovery
Crime
Guilt
" Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. "
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Human
Future
Way
" We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. "
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Almost
Human
Life
" In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. "
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Go
Escape
Try
" The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. "
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Leader
He
Error
" The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. "
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Earth
Human
Human Condition
" 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. "
Hannah Arendt
Politics
Beginning
Freedom
" 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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Speech
Political
Man
" Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. "
Hannah Arendt
Only
Mind
Changes
" The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. "
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Reputation
Revolution
Violence
" The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. "
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Trouble
Liar
Hide
" The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. "
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Will
Revolution
Day
" Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. "
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Know
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" Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. "
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Experience
Love
Love Is
" Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. "
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Objects
Life
Culture
" 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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People
Sad
Good
" 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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Mob
Masses
Only
" Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. "
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Without
Action
Meaningless