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Richard Cecil (clergyman) (1748–1810) British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 4.
“It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.”
— Hannah Arendt, book The Human Condition
The Human Condition (1958).
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