Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
Hannah ArendtCulture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.
Hannah ArendtThis is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah ArendtWhen an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
Hannah ArendtThe will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.
Hannah Arendt