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A quotation from Arendt

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 12 “Totalitarianism in Power,” sec. 3 (1951)

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"S'il est vrai que les masses sont obsédées par le désir d'échapper à la réalité parce que, dans leur déracinement essentiel, elles ne peuvent plus en supporter les aspects accidentels et incompréhensibles, il est également vrai que leur soif de fiction a un certain rapport avec ces qualités de l'esprit humain dont la cohérence structurelle domine le simple hasard. La fuite des masses devant la réalité est une condamnation du monde dans lequel elles sont contraintes de vivre et ne peuvent subsister, puisque la coïncidence en est devenue la loi suprême et que les êtres humains ont besoin de transformer constamment les conditions chaotiques et accidentelles en un schéma humain d'une relative cohérence."
~ Hannah Arendt, in « Le Totalitarisme », p.108

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Introduction (1977)

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Oltre l’illusione della pace

https://rizomatica.noblogs.org/2026/02/civino-oltre-illusione-della-pace/

Non è la guerra in sé a costituire l’anomalia. L’anomalia è un ordine mondiale che non riesce più a produrre integrazione, stabilità, futuro condiviso, e che per questo ricorre ciclicamente alla forza. Gli accordi su Gaza, come molt

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

And just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, “Thou shalt not kill,” even though man’s natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler’s land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: “Thou shalt kill,” although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it — the quality of temptation.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, ch. 8 (1963)

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

For behind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence the doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done. The moment moral issues are raised, even in passing, he who raises them will be confronted with this frightful lack of self-confidence and hence of pride, and also with a kind of mock-modesty that in saying, Who am I to judge? actually means We’re all alike, equally bad, and those who try, or pretend that they try, to remain halfway decent are either saints or hypocrites, and in either case should leave us alone.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1964-08), “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” The Listener Magazine

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Pariah & Parvenu is my Hannah Arendt-inspired Honey Heist hack, drawing influence from the aesthetics of Mörk Borg.
https://aryl-ether.itch.io/pariahnparvenu
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The masses' flight from reality is a condemnation of the world in which they are forced to live. […] The main disadvantage of reality is that it is not logical, coherent or organised.
~ Hannah Arendt, in "Totalitarianism"

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#Wissenschaft als #Möglichkeit der #Verwirklichung eines #Traum​es.

Das #Klagen über #Unzufriedenheit und die #Forderung nach #Rechte​n als #Symptom des #Wunsch​es nach #Umtausch von #Bedingungen in solche, die durch die #Bedingung des #Antizipieren der #Möglichkeit von #Gefahr #bestimmt sind.

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