Hannah Arendt Quotes
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
Quotes to Explore
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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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.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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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.
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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.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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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.
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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.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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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.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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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.
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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.
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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The task of the educator of young children lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
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I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.
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Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.
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Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
