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Justice demands seclusion, permits sorrow rather than anger, and rules out the pleasures of the limelight
Drawn from what Hannah Arendt said
What Hannah Arendt actually said
- Hannah Arendt German-born American political theorist (1906 to 1975)
Justice does not permit anything of the sort; it demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight.
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