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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
German Historian
Born: Oct 14, 1906
Died: Dec 4, 1975
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness Freedom Key Action
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. Hannah Arendt
Truth Liar Hide Trouble Lying Entirely Clear Wishes Efficiency Deceiver Deceiving Depends Notion
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. Hannah Arendt
Leader Become Admit Never He Mass Qualification Infallibility Error Chief Unending
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt
Totalitarianism Propaganda Only Attracted Masses Mob Won Itself Momentum Elite
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Hannah Arendt
Sad Truth Good Truth Is People Evil Sad Truth Minds Never Most Make Make Up Up Done Who
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. Hannah Arendt
Hypocrite Crime Evil Radical Criminal Only True Perplexity Confront Us Really Rotten Core
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. Hannah Arendt
Loyalty Mind Changes Possible Total Only Arise Content Concrete Which Fidelity Might Naturally
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. Hannah Arendt
Best Crime Guilt Collective Nothing Guilty Possible Magnitude No-One Excuse Safeguard Doing Discovery Very Confessions Where Against
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. Hannah Arendt
Good Day Freedom One Day Out Constitute Proof Rather Economic Economic Growth Lead Existence Conditions Than May Curse Either Turn Growth
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. Hannah Arendt
Power Lying Those Pick Know Make Up Revolutionaries Revolutions Then Who Street
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. Hannah Arendt
Odds Overwhelming Everyday Statistical Guise Miracle Laws Purposes New Practical Always Probability Happens Which Against Certainty Therefore Appears Amount
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. Hannah Arendt
Future Promises Way Possible Reliable Making Human Ordering Predictable Uniquely Human Way Extent
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. Hannah Arendt
Day Conservative Will Become Revolution Radical Most Revolutionary After
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. Hannah Arendt
Reality World Ideology Third Third World
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. Hannah Arendt
Defining Without Reveals Error Committing Storytelling Meaning
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. Hannah Arendt
Life Death Flux Completeness All Things Silent Hazardous Merely Also Subject Snatched Human Ends Which Things
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Hannah Arendt
Before Learn Doing Them Things
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. Hannah Arendt
Day Political Defiance Secular World-Wide One Day Religious Outstanding Well Decade Authority May Established Social Event Last Last Decade Phenomenon
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. Hannah Arendt
Love Mistake Love Is Experience People Only Poets Indispensable Crucial Which Them Whom Universal
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. Hannah Arendt
Happiness Men Sense Living Well Arrive Ultimate Ultimate End End Human Different Which Means Chosen Acts Desire
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. Hannah Arendt
Life Entertainment Culture People World Relates Objects Phenomenon
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. Hannah Arendt
Man Political Become Matters Definition Relevance Makes Being Wherever Stake Speech
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. Hannah Arendt
Good Girl Few Horse Shaped Well
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. Hannah Arendt
You Know Disgusting Fifties
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. Hannah Arendt
Nature History Made Long Become Past Every Once Has-Been Stays Recorded Been Very Human The History Of After Mankind Act Appearance Actuality Thing Things
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. Hannah Arendt
Matter Become Revolution Reputation International Relations Relations Uncertain More Instrument Dubious Affairs Domestic Gained Appeal International Specifically Violence
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