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I am not one of those people who believe that MLK achieved more in martyrdom than he could have if he'd lived: imagine what a guiding influence he could have on the world were he still among us. Hampton Sides
People World Believe Guiding Those More Martyrdom Could He Am Still Were Than Achieved Influence Us Who Lived Among Imagine
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. Hannah Arendt
Power Opposites Own Other Rules Absent Absolutely Disappearance Course Left Ends Where Appears Jeopardy Violence
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
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. Hannah Arendt
Political Thought Beginning Believe Our Definite Marx Had Aristotle Came Tradition End Karl Karl Marx Theories Teachings Less Plato
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West. Henri Pirenne
Time Culture World Unity Mediterranean Destroyed Ancient Neither Features Emperor Longer Still Nor West Existed Truly Germanic Essential May Roman Regarded Century
The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs. Henri Pirenne
State Way Could Alter Affairs West Germanic Did Any
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. Henry Adams
Passion Men Young Senile Regarding Young Men Elders
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. Henry Adams
Politics Art Pessimist Anarchist Take Merely Terms Well Understand Am Impressionist Literature Mean Them
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. Henry Adams
Problems Philosophy Answers Unintelligible
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. Henry Adams
Education Nature Knowledge Political Beginning Human Nature End Human
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants. Henry Adams
God You Happy Thank God Remember Goodness Sweet Mornings Never Come Cheerful Passed Infants Reflecting Stock Thank Who
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest. Henry Adams
Man Digest Must More He Than Swallow Belief Now
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. Henry Adams
Marriage Accident Counts Much Companionship
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. Henry Adams
Man Edge Only Conclude Anything Grave
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. Henry Adams
Travel Own Everyone Rule Carries He Himself His Taste Wherever Inch Travels Applying
Intimates are predestined. Henry Adams
Predestined
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. Henry Adams
Power Energy Abnormal Facts Most Serious
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. Henry Adams
Genius Highest Forces
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. Henry Adams
Combat Obstacles Got Get Repose Order
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. Henry Adams
God Man Woman Heart Obey Long Every Summoned Hidden Must Find Lies Divinity He Calling Up Effort After Which Succeeded Who Every Man Last Startled
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