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... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.
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 climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.
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Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
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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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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.
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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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