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Hannah Arendt

German

October 14, 1906

Philosopher

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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

Tags: You Know Disgusting

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

Tags: Think Than Far

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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

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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.

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

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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.

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