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
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
- 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.
- 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.
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Best Quotes
- The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
- If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
- There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
- It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
- The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
- I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
- The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
- It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
- If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.