Frasi di Hannah Arendt

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Il rimedio all'imprevedibilità della sorte, alla caotica incertezza del futuro, è la facoltà di fare e mantenere promesse.

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The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

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Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

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The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by nobody is not no-rule and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

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Politically speaking, tribal nationalism (patriotism) always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies', 'one against all' and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.