Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

Quote by Hannah Arendt

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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...

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...

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...

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...

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of...

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of...

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...

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

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...

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...

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

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

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road...

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road...

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing...

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing...

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...

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from...

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from...

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what...

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what...