Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Quote by Hannah Arendt

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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good,...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good,...

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed...

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed...

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity,...

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity,...

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible...

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible...

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying...

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying...

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of...

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of...

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence...

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence...

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more...

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more...

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible...

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible...

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in...

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable...

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable...

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

I don't think I'm that good at telling time. He said he'd love me forever,...

I don't think I'm that good at telling time. He said he'd love me forever,...