Hannah Arendt

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“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”

― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”

― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.”

― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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“Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.”

― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.”

― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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“the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons”

― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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“Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.”

― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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“the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.”

― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

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“The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning”

― Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)