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• It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

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  Individual Strength, Independence, Groups

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.

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  Issues, Goal, May

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.246, Penguin

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• Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

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  Art, Poetry, Language

  Hannah Arendt, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb (2007). “Reflections on Literature and Culture”, p.174, Stanford University Press

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• With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

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  Art, Philosophy, History

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

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  Peace, War, Lying

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• Thought and action must never part company.

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  Action, Thoughts And Actions, Company

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• Our problem today is not how to expropriate the expropriators but, rather, how to arrange matters so that the masses, dispossessed by industrial society in capitalist and socialist systems, can regain property. For this reason alone, the alternative between capitalism and socialism is false-not only because neither exists anywhere in its pure state anyhow, but because we have here twins, each wearing different hats.

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  Wisdom, Different, Alternatives

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• Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

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  Home, Men, Giving

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

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  Thinking, Speaking Up, Speak

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

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  Roles, Assuming, Corruption

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.77, University of Chicago Press

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• Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.

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  Loneliness, Fate, Reality

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• The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality.

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  Reality, Differences, Victory

  Hannah Arendt (2012). “Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

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  Class, Expansion, Limits

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

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  Being In Love, Destiny, People

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.

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  Men, Organization, Political

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• Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

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  Philosophy, Frustration

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Needs

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

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  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Rotten

  'On Revolution' (1963) ch. 2

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• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

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  Men, Political, Speech

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

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  Needs, Quests, Inspired

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.31, HMH

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• ... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

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  Thoughtful, Thinking, Doing Nothing

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “Willing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?

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  Men, Thinking, Evil

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory, is obvious. One of the most beautiful examples of this kind of sophistry occurred after 1933 when the German Communists for nearly two years refused to recognize that Hitler's victory had been a defeat for the German Communist Party.

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  Beautiful, Party, Years

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body.

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  Differences, Psychology, Body

  "The Life of the Mind" by Hannah Arendt, New York, Harcourt, (pp. 34-35), 1978.

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• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

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  Philosophy, Medicine, Perception

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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