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Hannah Arendt Inspirational Quotes (151)

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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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While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.
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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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The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
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With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.
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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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To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
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Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.
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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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Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.
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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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We are free to change the world and start something new in it.
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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.
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For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death.
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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
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Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?
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A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.
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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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