Quote by Hannah Arendt
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved

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

Category:
Tyranny
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
Experience
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
Violence
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Emigration is no longer a solution its a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but theyre knocking on doors that are not open. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

Category:
Death

I really enjoy theater. I just went to see Death of a Salesman, and it knocked me on my ass. – Jason Reitman

Category:
Death

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. – R. D. Laing

Category:
Death

The miser, starving his brothers body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. – Theodore Parker

Category:
Death

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The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi

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Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. – Thomas Jefferson

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There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. – Charlie Lau, 1982

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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. – Camille Paglia

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