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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1906
Born: October 14
Died: 1975
Died: December 4
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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.
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It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.
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The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.
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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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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.
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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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