Hannah Arendt Jewish-American
political theorist
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hannah_Arendt#Quotes
In politics, love is a
stranger,and when it intrudes
upon it nothing is being
achieved
except hypocrisy.
All the characteristics you
stress in the Negro people: their
beauty, their capacity for joy,
their warmth, and their
humanity,
are well-known characteristics
of all oppressed people.
They grow out of suffering and
they are the proudest possession
of all pariahs.
Unfortunately, they have never
survived the hour of liberation
by even five minutes. Hatred and
love belong together, and they
are both destructive; you can
afford them only in private and,
as a people, only so long as you
are not free.
-Letter to James Baldwin (21
November 1962)
Narrative reveals Concepts
without making the mistake of
defending them
~Hannah Arendt.
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to
necessitybecause his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
In an ever-changing,
incomprehensible world the
masses had reached the point where they
would, at the same time, believe
everything and nothing, think
that everything was possible and
that nothing was true.
[…] under such conditions, one
could make people believe the
most fantastic statements one
day, and trust that if the next
day they were given irrefutable
proof of their falsehood, they
would take refuge in cynicism;
instead of deserting the leaders
who had lied to them, they would
protest that they had known all
along that the statement was a
lie and would admire the leaders
for their superior tactical
cleverness.
The totalitarian attempt at
global conquest and total
domination has been the
destructive way out of
all impasses.
Its victory may coincide with
the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.
if it is true that in the final
stages of totalitarianism an
absolute evil appears (absolute
because it can no longer be
deduced from humanly
comprehensible motives), it is
also true that without it we
might never have known the
truly.
radical nature of Evil.
aloofness without policy does
not imply even the minimum concern
of. the oppressor for the
oppressed.
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