Hannah Arendt Quotes
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
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Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
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I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
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For future politics, I don't know what it holds, but if there's a possibility that the people want me to do another political office, again, maybe I'll do it.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.
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The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.
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Only the Catholic Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.
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Music's golden tongueFlatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.
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Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.
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Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
