Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Quote by Hannah Arendt

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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition...

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which...

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit...

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit...

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

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

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...

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

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

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

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...

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that...

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that...

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...

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes....

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes....

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by...

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by...

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...

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech...

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech...

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once...

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once...

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear...

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear...

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...