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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.
Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1906
Born: October 14
Died: 1975
Died: December 4
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Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.
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the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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where everybody is guilty, nobody is.
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If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress.
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The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.
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