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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The economy, unemployment, the future... Politicians, economists, and journalists are constantly debating these key issues for our country but rarely come to an answer. But behind all this, there is a fairly simple truth: no matter what anybody says, jobs are hard to come by.
Jameela Jamil
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
Barbra Streisand
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The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.
Anthony Storr
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'An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.'
Keith Olbermann
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When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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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