Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend f…

Hannah Arendt
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Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action. ✨ Hannah Arendt (2000). The Portable Hannah Arendt, Penguin Group USA
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