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I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

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Hannah Arendt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1906
Born: October 14
Died: 1975
Died: December 4
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Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.
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Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.
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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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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Kant ... was also quite aware that the urgent need of reason is both different from and more than mere quest and desire for knowledge. Hence, the distinguishing of the two faculties, reason and intellect, coincides with a distinction between two altogether different mental activities, thinking and knowing.
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