Hannah Arendt Quotes

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

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• 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

• Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Thing
  • Vanity

• I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Face
  • Really
  • Coin

• The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

  

  N. Scott Momaday

• Korean cinema is very improvisational, and there is a unique power that stems from this.

  

  Doona Bae
  • Power
  • Cinema
  • Improvisational

• The ideology of Miller's 'lost boys' is an incandescent mix derived from PlayStation violence, Iraq news footage, Peter Pan, William Burroughs's 'Wild Boys,' and anti-G8 millenarianism.

  

  James Hawes
  • Lost
  • Violence

• I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.

  

  David Rockwell
  • Good
  • Design

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

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Power
  • Violence
  • Extreme