Quotes from the World for Tuesday 04/10/MMXII

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical human forces.

Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German-born U.S. political philosopher. The Human Condition, pt. 5, ch. 33 (1958).