Hannah Arendt: "Equality… is the result of human organization. We..."

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Hannah Arendt (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.

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The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

—Hannah Arendt

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

—Hannah Arendt

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The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older—namely, as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

—Hannah Arendt

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In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen.

—Hannah Arendt

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There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedient’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

—Hannah Arendt

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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

—George Orwell

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The love of democracy is that of equality.

—Charles de Montesquieu

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In the state of nature… all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

—Charles de Montesquieu

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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

—Aristotle

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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

—Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

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Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

Equality… is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

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