Quotes from the World for Monday 04/08/MMXIII

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).