Maxioms by Hannah Arendt
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in read more
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented read more
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led read more
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
