Hannah Arendt Quotes German - Historian October 14, 1906 - December 4, 1975 The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. Hannah Arendt This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. Hannah Arendt Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. Hannah Arendt Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. Hannah Arendt Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. Hannah Arendt The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. Hannah Arendt Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. Hannah Arendt Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. Hannah Arendt The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. Hannah Arendt Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. Hannah Arendt The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. Hannah Arendt Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. Hannah Arendt No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. Hannah Arendt For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Hannah Arendt Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. Hannah Arendt In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. Hannah Arendt Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. Hannah Arendt Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. Hannah Arendt The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. Hannah Arendt Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. Hannah Arendt War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. Hannah Arendt Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. Hannah Arendt No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. Hannah Arendt It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. Hannah Arendt It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. Hannah Arendt Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. Hannah Arendt Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. Hannah Arendt To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. Hannah Arendt By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. Hannah Arendt The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. Hannah Arendt The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. Hannah Arendt Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. Hannah Arendt The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. Hannah Arendt Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. Hannah Arendt The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. Hannah Arendt The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. Hannah Arendt Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. Hannah Arendt We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. Hannah Arendt Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. Hannah Arendt Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. Hannah Arendt These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. Hannah Arendt C. Everett Koop Quotes American - Public Servant Born: October 14, 1916 You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes. C. Everett Koop My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job. C. Everett Koop Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class. C. Everett Koop They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up. C. Everett Koop When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up. C. Everett Koop If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him. C. Everett Koop The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century. C. Everett Koop The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it. C. Everett Koop The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics. C. Everett Koop You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are. C. Everett Koop There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together. C. Everett Koop One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play. C. Everett Koop There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. C. Everett Koop The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for. C. Everett Koop There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home. C. Everett Koop That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does. C. Everett Koop The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them. C. Everett Koop

We could use Judge Brandeis now. When I read the Eva Zeisel quotes, I looked up to see my Eva Zeisel vase on the shelf, right now with a few small branches of firethorn which my neighbor threw in the trash.

Ben, sure you are right, Sentimental and Julia Child! I can't take credit for anything special, just fortunate that these roses, mature and resilient, displayed their splendor in any conditions. They were positioned near a large, floor-to-ceiling south-facing window, benefiting from temperatures of 68-70F and the aid of a humidifier. Their early start seemed to set the stage for their exceptional performance throughout the season. Julia Child continued blooming until early December, offering about 6-7 flashes of beautiful blossoms!

I promise I won't post a picture every time it blooms, but I'm officially obsessed with Loves Me, Loves Me Not. This time, I'm home in the daytime to smell it and the scent is very strong and gorgeous; to me, it definitely earns the rating of "exceptionally fragrant." It's a complex fruity scent. Star Roses mentions gardenia in describing its scent, and I just did a comparison with my gardenia, and I can see what they mean. I'm not sure I pick up on the pineapple they mention, but the fruitiness is definitely there. The center appears to have more petals this time, but I still don't think it's going to have the petal-packed look of the promo pictures when it fully opens. (I need to have patience, I know.) But I hardly care, as I love this rose as it is.