Hannah Arendt Quotes

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.

Hannah Arendt

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• Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.

  

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• America is a country that will not be broken by fear. And instead, America is a country blessed with citizens marked by goodwill and great resolve.

  

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• The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.

  

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• As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Citizens
  • Prevent
  • Sufferer