Hannah Arendt Quotes

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

Hannah Arendt

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• So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • War
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Drums
  • Bass

• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Want
  • Tyrants
  • Seldom

• As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.

  

  Edith Stein
  • People
  • God
  • Knowledge

• 'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Play
  • Lucky

• Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Country
  • Wisdom

• I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Young
  • Very
  • Gravity

• When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Play
  • First
  • Guitar

• To read too many books is harmful.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Books
  • Read
  • Too

• Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Strong
  • Years
  • Through

• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Fun
  • Violence
  • Things

• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • Money
  • Art

• On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Home
  • Military
  • Soldier

• It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Live
  • Play

• There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Religion

• Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Down
  • Go

• Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Reality
  • Like
  • Corner

• Knowing how they were sleeping on a dirt floor at that very moment, while I had a soft pillow under my head, made me feel incredibly guilty.

  

  AnnaSophia Robb
  • Guilty

• Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the same time: 'Hey! Let's set up the slide projector!'

  

  Linwood Barclay
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The point I'm trying to make is that you go to church on Sunday. But the real Christ is out there in your life every day, whether it be the guy you help on the street, how you live your life, and your countenance that makes people want to be you.

  

  Jim Caviezel
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Know

• He's just a freshman and we have a lot of depth this year. I think there's such an adjustment for freshmen from a strength and physical standpoint. He's doing a good job with that. He's a complete player. He just has to continue to improve and get himself used to this level.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Good
  • Job
  • Player

• The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Power
  • Violence
  • Extreme