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“Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

“Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.”
― Hannah Arendt, On Revolution

“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of modern mankind. The more equal conditions are, the less explanation there is for the differences that actually exist between people; and thus all the more unequal do individuals and groups become.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism