The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Quote by 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.
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Hannah Arendt Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
- 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.
- 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.
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- 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.
- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
- 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.
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Best Quotes
- We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.
- All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.
- God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
- To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
- Fighting a distraction is getting distracted.
- No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.
- I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
- All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
- He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.