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• Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon human diversity as such, that is, upon a characteristic of the "human status" without which the very words "mankind" or "humanity" would be devoid of meaning.

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  Diversity, Humanity, Would Be

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.235, Penguin

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• Hay muchos grandes autores del pasado que han sobrevivido a siglos de olvido y abandono, pero sigue siendo una incógnita si podrán sobrevivir a una versión entretenida de lo que tienen que decir.

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  Past, Able, Oblivion

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• 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.

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  Growth, One Day, May

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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• Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

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  Action, Isolation, Capacity

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.188, University of Chicago Press

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• Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

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  Home, Ifs And, Anticipation

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “The Life of the Mind: Thinking”

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• A diferencia de la venganza, que es la reacción natural y automática a la transgresión y que, debido a la irreversibilidad del proceso de acción, puede esperarse e incluso calcularse, el acto de perdonar nunca puede predecirse; es la única reacción que actúa de forma inesperada y, por tanto, conserva, aun siendo una reacción, algo del carácter original de la acción.

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  Forgiveness, Revenge, Character

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.241, University of Chicago Press

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• We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.

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  Heart, Essence, Political

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• The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.

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  Men, Forgiving, Promise

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• The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

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  Years, Way, Convincing

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

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  Plato, Believe, Teaching

  Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn (2006). “Between Past and Future”, p.30, Penguin

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• La ausencia de pensamiento es, en efecto, un factor poderoso en los asuntos humanos, estadísticamente hablando, el más poderoso, no sólo en la conducta de muchos, sino en la conducta de todos.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Affair

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• La naturaleza de todos los sistemas de partidos hace que los talentos auténticamente políticos sólo puedan imponerse en contadas ocasiones, y es aún más raro que las cualificaciones específicamente políticas sobrevivan a las mezquinas maniobras de la política de partidos, con sus exigencias de simple vendedurismo.

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  Party, Political, Demand

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• No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

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  Oysters, Matter, Taste

  Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). “Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

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  Country, Freedom, Blessing

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• Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.

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  Devil, Helping, Guilty

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• It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.

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  Space, Development, Causes

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

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  Religious, Political, One Day

  "Crises of the Republic". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Civil Disobedience", 1972.

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• Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?

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  Hombres, Pensamiento, Maldad

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its quality of rising into sight from some darker ground which must remain hidden if it is not to lose its depth in a very real, non-subjective sense.

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  Real, Sight, Quality

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• Las cosas buenas de la historia suelen ser de muy corta duración, pero después influyen decisivamente en lo que sucede durante largos periodos de tiempo.

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  Long, History, Duration

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

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  Love Is, Hypocrisy, Stranger

  Letter to James Baldwin, November 21, 1962.

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• The concept of unlimited expansion that alone can fulfill the hope for unlimited accumulation of capital, and brings about the aimless accumulation of power, makes the foundation of new political bodies - which up to the era of imperialism always had been the upshot of conquest - well-nigh impossible.

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  Political, Foundation, Expansion

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

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  Character, May, Something New

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• By assigning his political rights to the state the individual also delegates his social responsibilities to it: he asks the state to relieve him of the burden of caring for the poor precisely as he asks for protection against criminals. The difference between pauper and criminal disappears - both stand outside society.

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  Responsibility, Caring, Rights

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• It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

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  Depressing, Being Sad, Guilt

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.221, Penguin

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