Best Hannah Arendt Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. Broken Promises
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. Afford
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. Become Political
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs,… Affair
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means… Acts
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. Action
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. Admit
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. Ideology
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. Disgusting
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new… All
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of… Accounted
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude… All
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly… Always Won
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite… Advertising Agencies
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. Abundance
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history… Act
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime… Appeared
- The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy… Age
- It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent Admit
- Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence. Appears
- The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. Action
- Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own… All
- When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we… Assembly
- The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes… Bound
- Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be… Debate
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