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Hannah Arendt

" The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. "

Wishes , Truth , Trouble , Efficiency , Lying

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" Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. "

Action , Freedom , Forgiveness , Key

" The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. "

World , Reality , Ideology

" The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. "

Wishes , Truth , Trouble , Efficiency , Lying

" The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. "

Happiness , Living , Men , Desire , End , Sense

" There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. "

Thinking , Thoughts

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

Thinking , Thoughts

" To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. "

Age , Authority

" Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. "

Mind , Content , Fidelity , Loyalty

" Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. "

Tyranny

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

Nations , War , Luxury

" We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. "

Abundance

" Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. "

Man , Speech

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