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Concepción Arenal

Concepción Arenal

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It's rare, very rare, for anyone to fall into the abyss of disillusionment without having voluntarily approached the shore.

Concepción Arenal

Concepción Arenal

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Would the poor be what they are, if we were what we should be?

Concepción Arenal

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Great egoists are the stock of great villains.

Concepción Arenal

Concepción Arenal

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Compassion, always good, is in many cases the heavenly precursor of justice.

Concepción Arenal

Concepción Arenal

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The education of women up to this point could be called, without much violence: The art of wasting time.

Concepción Arenal

Concepción Arenal

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The knowledge does not seem obligatory except to the one who already knows.

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

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The political issues are too serious to be left in the hands of politicians.

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

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Violence can destroy power, but it is completely incapable of creating it.

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

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Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everyone is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; because the domination of Nobody is not the absence of domination, and where everyone equally lacks power we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

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Action is the only human faculty to perform miracles.