Breaking promises Quote by Hannah Arendt Download Open image “Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.” — Hannah Arendt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Breaking promises Broken promises False promises Humans Inspirational Keeping promises Kept promises Predictable Promise Promise of the future Promises that are broken Time Way
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Promises are the uniquely human way of orderin The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule. — Bree Despain Copy Share Image
The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves. The promises we makes to ourselves are the things that assure us we… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
We make promises of a lifetime when we don't even know what's gonna happen the next moment — ShaisZ 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
There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water. — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Senator Hillary Clinton is attacking President Bush for breaking his campaign promise to cut carbon dioxide emissions, saying a promise made, a promise broken.… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities. — Jared Polis Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing. — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, there’s nothing wrong with breaking promises, though. You can’t go through life without breaking promises. You need to break a few rules as… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
