Hannah Arendt Quotes

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

A new world order is taking shape so fast that governments as well as private citizens find it difficult just to absorb the gallop of events.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he lost to Kennedy, then he lost the California governorship. Then came a great comeback and then he blew it again - and the next comeback, after he lost the presidency. He was a man who needed the feeling of walking the precipice.

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.

You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.

It was such a dramatic escalator that I was on. It was at 90 degrees. I was going straight up like a rocket ship into space. And I was thrown in with the sharks. They said sink or swim in this Cup deal.

If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.

When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.

One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling.

And the west, encumbered by crippling alliances, and hardened with a morality too rigid to accommodate itself to the swing of events, must ..... eventually ..... fall.

I think finals are there to be won, you know the feeling of losing a final is really bad. I prefer to lose a semi-final, quarter-final because I know I will forget... But the feeling of losing a final stays here forever. Even if you win two, three, four, five it stays. You know, I’m too scared to lose, so I give everything to win.

I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.

Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.

It is through the dispositions of an army that its condition may be discovered. Conceal your dispositions, and your condition will remain secret, which leads to victory,; show your dispositions, and your condition will become patent, which leads to defeat.

It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball.

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago has no connection to what happens now. Beware of power when it masters the secret of popular amnesia.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.