The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
~ George Santayana
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The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
~ George Santayana
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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
~ George Santayana
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England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
~ George Santayana
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
~ Hannah Arendt
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In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
~ Hannah Arendt
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