Quote by Hannah Arendt
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. - Ha

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. – Hannah Arendt

Other quotes by Hannah Arendt

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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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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Ideas
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Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money. – Owen Laughlin

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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born. – Ron Brown

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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We like to test things… no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first. – Henry Block

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