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We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#actuality #after #appearance #become #been

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Hannah Arendt

#being #definition #makes #man #matters

People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked. ↗

— Asia Argento

#anywhere #around #attitudes #except #go

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. ↗