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Nobody has the right to obey - Hannah Arendt, who died on this day Dec 4, 1975.
I picked this up recently #HannahArendt
“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”
― Hannah Arendt
“To say that “nobody has the right to obey” is a reminder that our actions are always the result of a choice – and therefore judgment – in the present.”

Read this to see the quote as a direct challenge to a fascist monument in #Italian town of Bolzano google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…
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