"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."

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Source : Hannah Arendt (1966). “The origins of totalitarianism”

Hannah Arendt

#Conviction Quotes #Form Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.”
“It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank.”
“The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.”
“You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.”

Source : Le Corbusier (1931). “Towards a New Architecture”, p.203, Courier Corporation
“Since the new film has been out, I'm doing quite a lot but then in July I will start doing things at home. I have to fix the house up, see the grandchildren and such.”
“A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where it will have no security at all.”

Source : "The Illusion of Total Security". Radcliffe Commencement Address on June 16, 1954. The Atlantic Monthly, No.194, August 1954.
“I love attacking and racing aggressively, and obviously it's a big bonus when you're making an attack and you look around and you see the guys making faces because they're in pain, that just gives you that extra little percent to make them hurt even more.”
“Forever and forever and forever”

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