Maxioms by Hannah Arendt
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in read more
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of read more
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods /moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former /but no opinion.
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes read more
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
