Activity Quotes by Hannah Arendt

9 Activity quotes by Hannah Arendt

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Arendt’s concise reflections explore the public sphere of action, reminding readers that meaningful participation shapes the world around us.

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It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

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Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is…

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It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no…

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... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

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Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside…

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Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless…

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Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and…

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The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything…

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... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing…

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“It means, first, that everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody and has the widest possible publicity. For us,…

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Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one…

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of…

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The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

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“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and…

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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…

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“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a…

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the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left…

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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are…

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to…

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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

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“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…

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