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Every government takes political responsibility for its predecessor's deeds, and every nation for its past

Drawn from what Hannah Arendt said

Subjectgovernment
What this subject means

government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What Hannah Arendt actually said

  1. Hannah Arendt German-born American political theorist (1906 to 1975)
    Every government assumes political responsibility for the deeds and misdeeds of its predecessor and every nation for the deeds and misdeeds of the past.

    Where this was said

    ↗Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics, 2006 edition)books.google.com

    c. 1964

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