Quote by Hannah Arendt
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, th

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. – Hannah Arendt

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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt

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power
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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. – Hannah Arendt

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Propaganda
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life. – Hannah Arendt

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Effort
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Freedom
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. – John F. Kennedy

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Freedom is from within. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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Institutions – government, churches, industries, and the like – have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Freedom

Freedom – an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. – John Ralston Saul

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My mom just didnt put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. – Martha Plimpton

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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. – Marcellinus Ammianus

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