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

Quote by Hannah Arendt

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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...

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...

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

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...

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...

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary...

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary...

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...

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 point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

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,...

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.

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 sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up...

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself....

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself....

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

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...