#om

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

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#action #freedom #key

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

Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I'm one person and by the time I finish I'm another. ↗

— Dario Argento

#by the time #changes #each #film #finish

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

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#future #human #human way #humanly #making

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