P/S: I only trust a person's eyes.
How right you are that I have no such love, and for two reasons: first, I have never in my life "loved" some nation or collective — not the German, French or American nation, or the working class, or whatever else might exist. The fact is that I love only my friends and am quite incapable of any other sort of love. Second, this kind of love for the Jews would seem suspect to me, since I've Jewish myself. I don't love myself or anything I know belongs to the substance of my being… [T]he magnificence of this people once lay in its belief in God — that is, in the way its trust and love of God far outweighed its fear of God. And now this people believes only in itself? In this sense I don't love the Jews, nor do I "believe" in them…. We would both agree that patriotism is impossible without constant opposition and critique.In this entire affair I can confess to you one thing: the injustice committed by my own people naturally provokes me more than injustice done by others.
Hannah arendt
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