Selfishness blights the germ of all virtue; individualism, at first, only saps the virtue of public life; but, in the long run, it attacks and destroys all others, and is at length absorbed in downright selfishness. - Toqueville

-La nature n'a fait ni serviteurs, ni maˆtres. Je ne veux ni donner, ni recevoir de lois.

-Ni l'or ni la grandeur ne nous rendent heureux.

-Personne ne le fera plus jamais de la même façon.

-L'avenir est un paradis d'où, exactement comme de l'autre, personne n'est encore jamais revenu.

Elle est jolie comme un coeur, mais myope comme une taupe.
Elle mange comme un oiseau et parle français comme une vache espagnole.

The dead die a second time by being forgotten. The totalitarians could perform such feats because among their novel arts was a wholesale assault of the factual world and a replacement of it with a factitious world of their own devising.

Intro to 'On Revolution'

For power can of course be destroyed by violence; this is what happens in tyrannies, where the violence of one destroys the power of the many, and which therefore, according to Montesquieu, are destroyed from within; they perish because they engender impotence instead of power.

Terror, the essential means of totalitarian regimes, is found to be a perversion of revolution, often unleashed by what Arendt sees as the mistaken attempt, illustrated by the French revolution, to use revolution to solve "the social question".

On peut dire n'importe quoi pourvu que ce soit bien écrit.

A significance test is a formal procedure for comparing observed data with a hypothesis whose truth we want to assess.