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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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A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adageThere is no alternative to victory retains a high degree of plausibility.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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