... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
the public sphere is as consistently based on the law of equality as the private sphere is based on the law of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert. Power is never the property of an… — 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
The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of… — 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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![“There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or…” quote by Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/860/hannah-arendt-610_accomplished_there-will-always-be-one-against-all-one_1598667.jpg)
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