Quote by Hannah Arendt
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evi

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. – 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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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. – Hannah Arendt

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The devil tempts all men, but idle men tempt the devil. – Arabic Proverb

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Speak the truth and shame the devil. – Proverb

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There is a method in mans wickedness; it grows up by degrees. – Francis Beaumont

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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. – John Berger

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