Lord Acton Quote Archive
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Occupied by questions of why we succumb to and normalize evil, Arendt identified as the root of tyranny the act of making other human beings irrelevant. Again and again, she returned to Augustine for the antidote: love.
Maria Popova • Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
True leadership-true character, more deeply-always and everywhere means opposition to the tyrant and the slave and, more deeply, to the spirits that animate both. Such movement away from the enticements of power and subjugation is, eternally, the journey to the promise land.
Jordan Peterson