Hannah Arendt Quotes

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

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• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• Robots are good at things that are structured.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Good
  • Things
  • Robots

• Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Different
  • Body
  • Personality

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Politics
  • Win

• There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Soul
  • Spiritual
  • Crime

• 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
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Black
  • Politics

• Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Violence

• 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
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• 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
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Day
  • Proud

• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Saying
  • Class

• I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Different
  • America

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Past
  • Change
  • Go

• When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Book
  • Like
  • Teacher

• I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Youth
  • League
  • Communist

• The prosecution has to go with the evidence and the facts and tell the story as it happened. The defense has more creative freedom. All you have to do is look for a defense that works. But it doesn't have to be the truth. Sometimes you get lucky and it is, but sometimes you don't, and either way, it doesn't matter.

  

  Marcia Clark
  • Truth
  • Freedom

• I used to write on my resume that I was shorter than I was because I thought it would inhibit my roles, and as soon as I embraced that I am a tall female, I started getting really fantastic roles and really didn't even worry about wearing heels.

  

  Heather Doerksen
  • Roles
  • Resume

• When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Truth
  • Head