Hannah Arendt Quotes
The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.
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I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.
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The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.
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The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.
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There is no strong beer, just weak men.
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What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
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Men are weak and constantly need reassurance, so now that they fail to find adulation in the opposite sex, they're turning to each other. Less and less do men need women. More and more do gentlemen prefer gentlemen.
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Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.
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There are no good saves, there are only weak shots.
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One is very weak when one is in love.
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How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.
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Futility is the defining characteristic of life.
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Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives.
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The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.
