#HannahArendt taught us that totalitarianism begins when truth collapses under a flood of lies and people stop asking what’s real.
Laws used to shield from accountability serve the only purpose of shifting the boundaries of what can be said and, gradually, what can be seen.
Als der Organisator der nationalsozialistischen Judenvernichtung in Jerusalem vor Gericht kam

1961 begann in Jerusalm der Prozess gegen Adolf Eichmann, den Organisator des Holocaust. Hannah Arendt prägte danach den Ausdruck "Banalität des Bösen".

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

If, as I suggested before, the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to “demand” its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be.

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

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Arendt, Hannah - Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 "Thinking," Introduction (1977) | WIST Quotations

If, as I suggested before, the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen…

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Es ist beängstigend, wie sich die Zeiten ähneln - und gleichzeitig bietet die Doku über #HannahArendt eine Idee von Hoffnung - es kann auch anders sein!

Deswegen 👉 Unbedingt anschauen!
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Encore un #vendredilecture avec un nouveau roman de #VictorErofeev, l’écrivain russe exilé à Berlin : « Die neue Barbarei », paru la semaine dernière. Afin d’arriver un jour à une perspective post-poutiniste (« il est mortel, après tout »), #Erofeev passe du péjoratif de racaille (гопник) titulaire de son dernier roman de 2023 à l’image encore moins flatteuse de beignet torique (пончик), le vide gonflé au pouvoir. Pivot du récit est la « culpabilité russe » incarnée en la burlesque Ruwi (РУ-сская ВИ-на) prête à se débattre contre #KarlJaspers et #HannahArendt mais pas de se sentir coupable du perpétuel « autogénocide » russe pratiqué depuis Ivan le Terrible.

‘A mentira é confortável quando reafirma o que a pessoa já acredita’, diz Jean Wyllys sobre desinformação

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)

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Ich lese die Neu-Edition von #HannahArendt |s „Eichmann in Jerusalem“, herausgegeben von Thomas Meyer und mit einem exzellenten Nachwort von Helmut König versehen. Parallel verfolge ich die aktuellen Nachrichten aus Israel, Iran … auf das die Worte nicht versagen und das Denken nicht scheitern möge.
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