"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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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11756/">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..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/248/">Arendt, Hannah</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/economy_and_economics/">Economy and Economics</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12061/">The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/248/">Arendt, Hannah</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/effort/">Effort</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12805/">The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/248/">Arendt, Hannah</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/evil/">Evil</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13143/">We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/248/">Arendt, Hannah</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/excess/">Excess</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14235/">Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/248/">Arendt, Hannah</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/family/">Family</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15469/">In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/248/">Arendt, Hannah</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/forgiveness/">Forgiveness</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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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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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15647/">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..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/248/">Arendt, Hannah</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/freedom/">Freedom</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19955/">What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/248/">Arendt, Hannah</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/hypocrisy/">Hypocrisy</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20557/">Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/248/">Arendt, Hannah</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/immortality/">Immortality</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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"No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22565/">No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/248/">Arendt, Hannah</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/law_and_lawyers/">Law and Lawyers</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/">Quotations Book</a> Post or embed · Email to friend
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