Between Thoughtlessness and Evil – Quote by Hannah Arendt
“There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.”
Hannah Arendt
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Quote by Hannah Arendt on Mass Leaders and Infallibility
“The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.”
Hannah Arendt
Eisenhower Quote about Age and Office
“No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.”
Eisenhower
Quote by William Penn on Freedom and Friendship
“There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.”
William Penn
Eisenhower Quote on Privileges and Principles
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
Eisenhower
Quote by William Penn on Divine Guidance and Tyranny
“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.”
William Penn
William Penn Quote on Peace and Justice
“Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.”
William Penn
Hatred of War and Experience – Quote by Eisenhower
“I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
Eisenhower
Quote by Hannah Arendt about Good and Evil
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
Hannah Arendt
Quote by Niels Bohr about Superstition and Luck
“A physicist visits a colleague and notices a horseshoe hanging on the wall above the entrance. ‘Do you really believe that a horseshoe brings luck?’ he asks. ‘No,’ replies the colleague, ‘but I’ve been told that it works even if you don’t believe in it.'”
Niels Bohr