Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — 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 for… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It is as though mankind had divided itself between those who believe in human omnipotence (who think that everything is possible if… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. This… — 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
“Labor is the activity which corresponds to the biological process of the human body, whose spontaneous growth, metabolism, and eventual decay are… — 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
Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all'… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Work is the activity which corresponds to the unnaturalness of human existence, which is not imbedded in, and whose mortality is not… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“However, of the three, action has the closest connection with the human condition of natality; the new beginning inherent in birth can… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“This new situation, in which "humanity" has in effect assumed the role formerly ascribed to nature or history, would mean in this… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“With the term vita activa, I propose to designate three fundamental human activities: labor, work, and action. They are fundamental because each… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The human condition comprehends more than the conditions under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Moreover, nothing entitles us to assume that man has a nature or essence in the same sense as other things. In other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“To avoid misunderstanding: the human condition is not the same as human nature, and the sum total of human activities and capabilities… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of Hobbes , it is true, contains nothing of modern race doctrines, which not only stir up the mob, but… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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