Best Hannah Arendt Lines
- For excellence, the presence of others is always required. Always Required
- The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. Aim
- in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made… Accord
- As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake. All
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. Commission
- The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and… All
- The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. Come True
- The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the… Actually Destroys
- Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves. Each
- There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they… Able
- And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is… Action
- Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act. Act
- Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --… Action
- Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the… Abundance
- When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head. Any
- The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for… Acting
- Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save… Advance
- Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake. Courage
- For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same. Nurse
- That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the beginning of victory,… All
- Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are… Abroad
- Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history. Flow
- The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its… Alive
- Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality. Adherence
- Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. Beginning
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