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Men Quotes by Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
- 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…
- 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…
- Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.
- The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of…
- While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment…
- Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men,…
- If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend…
- Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that…
- The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in…
- This inability to think created the possibility for many ordinary men to commit evil deeds on a gigantic scale, the like of which had never…
- Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record…
- What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will…
- Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them.
- Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to…
- 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…
- Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
- Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --…
- 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…
- Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that…
- When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle