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Hannah Arendt Quotes: Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.
         

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.


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Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.



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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.



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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.



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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.



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There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.



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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.



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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.



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