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Arendt believed that “laughter makes available confidence in our fellow man, confidence in the human power of resistance — against ideology and terror, against obscurantism, repression, dogmatism, and despotism.” She spoke of laughter as a form of “self-sovereignty” and elsewhere of a “kind of laughing courage.”
L. M. Sacasas • Laughter In Dark Times
Alex Wittenberg added
“The existence of a public realm,” Arendt observed, “and the world's subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence.”
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
Keely Adler added
We are, I think, for reasons that are not altogether clear to me, standing sentinel because we are encountering not a treasure in quite the same sense that Arendt suggests here, but something like its distant echo—the rumor of a mode of life we’ve forgotten or been denied.
L. M. Sacasas • Laughter In Dark Times
Alex Wittenberg added
“Terror can only rule over men who are isolated against each other,” Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Diana M. Smith • Putting an end to political nonsense
It’s a human need to be told stories. The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. — Alan Rickman
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
Kaustubh Sule added
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Hannah Arendt powerfully explained “the constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people who can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and w... See more
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.