6 Quotes by Hannah Arendt about history
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The antisemitic parties' claim to be "above all parties" announced clearly their aspiration to become the representative of the whole nation, to get exclusive power, to take possession of the state machinery, to substitute themselves for the state.
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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.
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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
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Not only does the actual meaning of every event always transcend any number of past "causes" which we may assign to it, this past itself comes into being only with the event itself.
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Sofern Vergangenheit als Tradition überliefert ist, hat sie Autorität; sofern Autorität sich geschichtlich darstellt, wird sie zur Tradition. Walter Benjamin wusste, dass Traditionsbruch und Autoritätsverlust irreperabel waren, und zog daraus den Schluss, neue Wege für den Umgang mit der Vergangenheit zu suchen.
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The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
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