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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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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. – Hannah Arendt

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History
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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 powers disappearance. – Hannah Arendt

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power
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. – Hannah Arendt

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Beauty
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nations heart, the excision of its memory. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom – the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands. – Anna Deavere Smith

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You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness. – Robert Frost

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For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Husseins regime is a better and safer place. – George W. Bush

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If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile. – Proverb

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