A quotation from Hannah Arendt
Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 1, ch. 1 “Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense” (1951)
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Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
Für solche Auseinandersetzungen hatte der Kaiser die #Parteien streiten lassen und dann selber entschieden, wie er wollte.
Dass das die einzige Form der Demokratie wäre, ist Irrglaube: Die Parteien wirken an der Willensbildung des Volkes MIT, heißt es im #Grundgesetz!
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