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| Hannah Arendt
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. |
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