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"Historically speaking, racists have a worse record of patriotism than the representatives of all the other international ideologies together, and they were the only ones who denied the great principle upon which national organizations of peoples are built, the principle of equality and solidarity of all people by the idea of mankind."
— May 10, 2020 07:41PM
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Nicole
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There’s something tremendously comforting about listening to Hannah Arendt’s eminently rational and breathtakingly erudite analysis of an era we still haven’t left. I don’t claim to understand it all, but it soothes my anxiety about the present day.
— May 20, 2020 08:56AM
Nicole
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"The tremendous power of persuasion inherent in the main ideologies of our times is not accidental. Persuasion is not possible without appeal to either experiences or desires, in other words to immediate political needs...Every full fledged ideology has been created, continued and improved as political weapon and not as a theoretical doctrine.
— May 10, 2020 07:39PM
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Hot damn she’s good. Mind blown. I’m going to be the headless horseman by the time I’m done.
— May 08, 2020 07:15PM
Nicole
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This is the second time I've come across Benjamin Disraeli in so many months. Fascinating figure--makes me wonder what would happen if Dan Brown went into politics.
— May 02, 2020 10:05AM
