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Hannah Arendt quotes: The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time. The good things in history are usually of very short duration, but afterward have a decisive influence on what happens over long periods of time.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power ... Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power ...
Hannah Arendt quotes: Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt quotes: If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it. If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.
Hannah Arendt quotes: What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else! What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!
Hannah Arendt quotes: Equality ... is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. Equality ... is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Hannah Arendt quotes: When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head. When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
Hannah Arendt quotes: To think and to be fully alive are the same. To think and to be fully alive are the same.
Hannah Arendt quotes: A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman. A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.
Hannah Arendt quotes: For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Hannah Arendt quotes: In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them. Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom. The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before. The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.
Hannah Arendt quotes: What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience. What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake. Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim. The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons
Hannah Arendt quotes: Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home. Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is. The rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
Hannah Arendt quotes: It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength. It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The third world is not a reality, but an ideology. The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Where everybody is guilty, nobody is. Where everybody is guilty, nobody is.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself. Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire. Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.
Hannah Arendt quotes: We are free to change the world and start something new in it. We are free to change the world and start something new in it.
Hannah Arendt quotes: ...and if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer. ...and if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
Hannah Arendt quotes: By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Men in plural [ ... ] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves. Men in plural [ ... ] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
Hannah Arendt quotes: It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think. It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Thought and action must never part company. Thought and action must never part company.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness. The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company. Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Hannah Arendt quotes: What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing
Hannah Arendt quotes: Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work. The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation.
Hannah Arendt quotes: War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter. The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company. Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.
Hannah Arendt quotes: This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah Arendt quotes: There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.
Hannah Arendt quotes: To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity. The To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity. The
Hannah Arendt quotes: Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world. Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics ... Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics ...
Hannah Arendt quotes: Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history. Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought. Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Violence is an expression of impotence. Violence is an expression of impotence.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All. The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Hannah Arendt quotes: For excellence, the presence of others is always required. For excellence, the presence of others is always required.
Hannah Arendt quotes: We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution. We noted before that the passion of compassion was singularly absent from the minds and hearts of the men who made the American Revolution.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent. Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think. Thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves. The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.
Hannah Arendt quotes: [The] artisans [ ... ] men whose chief interest is their craft and not the market place. [The] artisans [ ... ] men whose chief interest is their craft and not the market place.
Hannah Arendt quotes: No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Hannah Arendt quotes: As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake. As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
Hannah Arendt quotes: There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous. There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public. Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody. Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
Hannah Arendt quotes: We all carry fault within. We all carry fault within.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces. The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Every thought is an afterthought. Every thought is an afterthought.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it. Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself. Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.
Hannah Arendt quotes: To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it. The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states. Laws that are not equal for all revert to rights and privileges, something contradictory to the very nature of nation-states.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live. The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny. The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought. Every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
Hannah Arendt quotes: If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all. The space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it. Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality - whatever it may be. Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality - whatever it may be.
Hannah Arendt quotes: In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy. In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God. The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The conflict between art and politics ... cannot and must not be solved. The conflict between art and politics ... cannot and must not be solved.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians - we call them 'children'. Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians - we call them 'children'.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Factual truth is always related to other people [ ... ]. It is political by nature. Factual truth is always related to other people [ ... ]. It is political by nature.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not. Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.
Hannah Arendt quotes: To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know. To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.
Hannah Arendt quotes: The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
Hannah Arendt quotes: Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance. Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance.

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