Hannah Arendt Quotes
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
Hannah Arendt
Quotes to Explore
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
Manning Marable
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
Mandy Patinkin
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
Ian Fleming
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries
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I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.
Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.
David A. Siegel
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When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.'
James Surowiecki
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I really connect with every character that I've played, just because I kinda have to; as an actor, you want to take them in and get to know them and like them; because they're evil, you kinda have to like them so that you can understand them and play them and play them with some kind of empathy.
Doug Jones
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
Hannah Arendt