Courage….is demanded of us by the very nature of the public realm. It requires courage in the political sense to step out…not because of particular dangers that may lie in wait for us there, but because we have arrived in a realm where care for life has lost its validity. Courage liberates men from their care for life for the sake of the freedom of the world. Courage is required because in politics the primary care is never for life itself, but always for the world, which will outlast all of us, in one form or another.
–Hannah Arendt, Freedom and Politics, a Lecture

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