It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

Quote by Hannah Arendt

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

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.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical...

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical...

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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon...

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon...

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...

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the...

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the...

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an...

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an...

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than...

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than...

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

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

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,...

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...

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...

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an...

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an...

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble!...

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble!...

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well,...

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well,...

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...

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

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...