Quote by Hannah Arendt
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, soci

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. – Hannah Arendt

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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. – Hannah Arendt

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Tyranny
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. – Hannah Arendt

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Death
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. – Hannah Arendt

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Obedience
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Other Quotes from
Twentieth Century
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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crows nest of that ship. – John Lennon

The fifties — they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy. – Elizabeth Hardwick

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier — the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises — it is a set of challenges. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all thats going on right now in a big way. – Bob Dylan

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She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the moon rules the tides. – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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Love

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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Leadership

The best is the enemy of the good. – Voltaire

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best

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate nothing but the changeableness of the weather. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Change