... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberatedfrom the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough),… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“To leave the household, originally in order to embark upon some adventure and glorious enterprise and later simply to devote one’s life… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“What all Greek philosophers, no matter how opposed to polis life, took for granted is that freedom is exclusively located in the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It means, first, that everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody and has the widest possible publicity. For us,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
“It is like the distinction between war and peace: just as war takes place for the sake of peace, thus every kind of activity,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
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