#al

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ↗

— Archimedes

#enough #fulcrum #give #give me #i

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#also #bestows #completeness #death #ends

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#elite #itself #masses #mob #momentum

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#entitles #experience #indispensable #love #love is

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#been #commission #contrary #could #crime

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. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#authority #day #decade #defiance #established

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

— Hannah Arendt

#all nations #become #luxury #nations #only

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. ↗

— Dario Argento

#bad thing #i #nostalgia #phase #thing

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#most #nation #nuclear #protected #secrets

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems. ↗

— Dario Argento

#films #homosexual #i #interested #lives