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Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.
Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1906
Born: October 14
Died: 1975
Died: December 4
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.
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Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
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Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
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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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Freedom from labor itself is not new it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.
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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 rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
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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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Violence can always destroy power out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.
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... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.
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For excellence, the presence of others is always required.
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Since one cannot educate adults, the word education has an evil sound in politics there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.
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