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Lying, Political, Tools. Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate. Hannah Arendt. Lying, Past, Violence. Hannah Arendt (1972).
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15 cze 2016 · The liar, who may get away with any number of single falsehoods, will find it impossible to get away with lying on principle. Arendt considers one particularly pernicious breed of liars — “public-relations managers in government who learned their trade from the inventiveness of Madison Avenue.”
Arendt and others recognized, writes Levy, that “being made to repeat an obvious lie makes it clear that you’re powerless.” She also recognized the function of an avalanche of lies to render a populace powerless to resist, the phenomenon we now refer to as “gaslighting”:
“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism.
881 quotes from Hannah Arendt: 'The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.', 'Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.', and 'The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.'.
Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, and Thoughts on Politics and Revolution by Hannah Arendt. 681 ratings, 4.07 average rating, 73 reviews. Open Preview. Crises of the Republic Quotes Showing 1-30 of 30.
