The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.
~ Hannah Arendt

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Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
~ Hannah Arendt

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Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
~ 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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If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.
~ Hannah Arendt

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The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.
~ Hannah Arendt

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
~ Hannah Arendt

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Real power begins where secrecy begins.
~ 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 its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.
~ Hannah Arendt

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